Error when renaming buckets "The bucket you tried to delete is not empty"

[ricokahler]

If I rename my bucket in my serverless config, it fails to delete the previous bucket causing the deploy to fail.

An error occurred: AssetsBucket - The bucket you tried to delete is not empty (Service: Amazon S3; Status Code: 409; Error Code: BucketNotEmpty;

For more context, I am creating the bucket in the serverless config as well.

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Is this behavior intended? Is there anyway I can work around this? Thanks for any guidance!

[coyoteecd]

@ricokahler I know is 1.5 years late, but I had the same issue and resorted to adding the functionality in another plugin (serverless-s3-remover, which is unmaintained and I migrated to https://github.com/coyoteecd/serverless-s3-cleaner

You have there a bucketsToCleanOnDeploy option which you can use with the "old" bucket name.
To prevent serverless-s3-sync plugin from conflicting with the cleaner plugin, I use sls remove --nos3sync option. Basically I let serverless-s3-sync to handle bucket updates, and the serverless-s3-cleaner to handle bucket cleanups.