Deleting Vultr Object Storage removes the S3-compatible store from your account and stops further charges. You should only delete the instance after backing up any important business assets to a different storage. The process is irreversible, and you can't undo it, so you should take great care.
Follow this guide to delete Vultr Object Storage using the Vultr Customer Portal, API, and CLI.
Navigate to Products and select Cloud Storage.
Click Object Storage. Then, select the target object storage instance and click the delete icon.
Send a GET
request to List Object Storages endpoint and note the object storage ID.
$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/object-storage" \
-X GET \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
Send a DELETE
request to the Delete Object Storage endpoint and specify an object storage ID to delete the instance.
$ curl "https://api.vultr.com/v2/object-storage/object_storage_id" \
-X DELETE \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${VULTR_API_KEY}"
Visit the Delete Object Storage endpoint to view additional attributes to add to your request.
List all object storage instances and note the object storage ID. For instance, 6856bb78-e67b-416c-8fc1-2473c66fa016
.
$ vultr-cli object-storage list
Delete an object storage by specifying the ID.
$ vultr-cli object-storage delete object_storage_id
Run vultr-cli object-storage delete --help
to view all options.