Amazon S3's new Multi-Object Delete gives you the ability to delete up to 1000 objects from an S3 bucket with a single request. If you are planning to delete large numbers of objects from S3 then you can quickly do so by using Multi-Object Delete. You can also delete object versions (in buckets where S3 object versioning has been enabled) by including Version Ids in the request.
Net-Net: Your application will make fewer calls to S3, each call will do more work, and the application will probably run faster as a result. Overall performance gains will vary depending on network latency between your client application and Amazon S3 and the number of objects in the request.
Multi-Object Delete provides you two response modes – verbose and quiet. The default XML response to a Multi-Object Delete request will include a status element (<Deleted> or <Error>) for every object. You can enable Quiet mode in the request if all you need are the <Error> elements.
We have updated the AWS SDKs for Java, Ruby, PHP, and .NET and you can get started today.
You can read more about this new function in the S3 documentation.
Update: Products with support for this new feature include CloudBerry Explorer, Bucket Explorer, and S3 Browser.
-- Jeff;


The new version of CloudBerry Explorer freeware comes with the full support for the Multi-Object Delete.
http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/2011/12/cloudberry-explorer-multi-object-delete.html
Posted by: twitter.com/cloudberryman | December 07, 2011 at 08:33 PM
WOW, That is really great to have. I was waiting for this feature from so long.
Thank you.
Posted by: Tarun | December 07, 2011 at 11:55 PM
This is really great feature that will save a lot of time for many Amazon S3 users.
We are happy to announce the new version of S3 Browser Freeware that now supports Multi-Object Delete: http://s3browser.com/s3-multi-object-delete.php
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With Best Regards,
S3 Browser Team.
Posted by: S3 Browser Team | December 10, 2011 at 10:52 AM
Great features by Amazon S3.
Bucket Explorer is available with complete support of Multi-Object Delete
Bucket Explorer provide Quick delete option,using it you can delete objects in bunch of 1000 objects.
You can start from here:
http://www.bucketexplorer.com/be-download.html
Posted by: Bucket Explorer | January 30, 2012 at 09:28 PM