Prerequisites

• awscli should be installed.
• Setup awscli for your IAM user.
• Allow S3 admin access for the IAM user.

To remove a file in AWS S3 navigate to the bucket in which the file is stored:

• Navigate to the bucket:

  aws s3 ls
  

• List files in the directory:

  aws s3 ls s3://name-of-bucket/
  

• Recursively list files in “suffix keys” a.k.a directories in S3 till you reach the required file to delete.
• Run the following to remove the file:

  aws s3 rm s3://name-of-bucket/<recursive-suffixes>/name-of-file-to-delete
  

  NOTE: To avoid accidental deletion. Add --dryrun to the commandline to preview the removal.

Remove All Files in S3 Folder

I highly advise running the following command with --dryrun first:

aws s3 rm --recursive s3://name-of-bucket/<recursive-suffixes>/