DeleteBucketTagging

DeleteBucketTagging removes the tag set from a bucket. Buckets on STRG carry no tags, so there is never a tag set to remove: the operation checks that the bucket exists and answers 204 No Content, leaving the bucket exactly as it was. That keeps tools which clear bucket tags as part of managing a bucket - Terraform's aws_s3_bucket resource, for example - working without any changes.

Good to know on STRG

• Buckets have no tags, so DeleteBucketTagging always succeeds and changes nothing.
• PutBucketTagging is answered with 501 NotImplemented, so a client knows straight away, and GetBucketTagging always answers 404 NoSuchTagSet - the same answer Amazon S3 gives for a bucket without tags.
• x-amz-expected-bucket-owner is welcome and has nothing to check: a key only ever reaches buckets of its own account.

When you'd use it

• Infrastructure as code. Terraform's aws_s3_bucket resource, and similar tools that bring a bucket in line with a configuration, clear the bucket's tags along the way. On STRG that request succeeds, so a plan applies cleanly.
• Scripts written for Amazon S3. A provisioning or clean-up script that removes a bucket's tags before moving on keeps running unchanged against STRG.

Request

DELETE /?tagging HTTP/1.1
Host: my-bucket.s3.eu-central-1.strg.com
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=...
x-amz-date: 20260926T120000Z
x-amz-content-sha256: e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855

The path-style form is DELETE /my-bucket?tagging on s3.eu-central-1.strg.com - Addressing explains both.

Permissions

The access key needs Manage buckets (buckets:write), a permission held by keys for all buckets. Access keys has the details.

URI parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
Bucket	String	Yes	The bucket whose tag set to remove.
tagging	Flag	Yes	Selects this operation. Sent with no value.

Request headers

Name	Type	Required	Description
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner	String	No	Welcome, with nothing to check: an access key only ever reaches its own account's buckets.

Request body

None.

Response

A successful request answers 204 No Content with no body.

Response headers

Name	Description
x-amz-request-id	The request ID, handy for a support request.

Response body

None.

Errors

These are the errors this request can return, and the situation behind each one.

Code	HTTP status	When
NoSuchBucket	404	The bucket does not exist, it is in a region other than the endpoint's, or the account has no storage in this endpoint's region.
AccessDenied	403	The access key lacks Manage buckets.
InvalidAccessKeyId	403	The access key does not exist, has expired or been revoked - or it was created moments ago and is not usable in this endpoint's region yet, in which case the same request works shortly afterwards.
SignatureDoesNotMatch	403	The request signature does not match.
RequestTimeTooSkewed	403	The request time is more than 15 minutes from the server's.
AuthorizationHeaderMalformed	400	The signature's credential scope names a region other than the endpoint's.
SlowDown	503	Too many requests. The Retry-After header says when a retry is welcome; the AWS SDKs retry on their own.
ServiceUnavailable	503	A temporary failure; the same request can be retried.
InternalError	500	An unexpected failure while checking the bucket; the same request can be retried.

Differences from Amazon S3

The table lists each place where STRG behaves differently, and what that means for a client.

Aspect	Amazon S3	STRG
Bucket tags	Stored, and removed by this operation	Buckets have no tags; this operation succeeds and changes nothing
Bucket in another region	301 redirect with x-amz-bucket-region	404 NoSuchBucket. A bucket is reached through its own regional endpoint.
x-amz-expected-bucket-owner	Checked against the bucket owner	Welcome, with nothing to check
Attribute-based access control (ABAC)	Blocks this operation on a bucket that has it enabled	Not part of STRG, so it never stands in the way of this operation

Examples

Clearing the tags of my-bucket in eu-central-1:

AWS CLI

aws s3api delete-bucket-tagging \
  --bucket my-bucket \
  --endpoint-url https://s3.eu-central-1.strg.com \
  --region eu-central-1

Python (boto3)

import boto3

s3 = boto3.client(
    "s3",
    endpoint_url="https://s3.eu-central-1.strg.com",
    region_name="eu-central-1",
)

s3.delete_bucket_tagging(Bucket="my-bucket")

JavaScript (AWS SDK v3)

import { DeleteBucketTaggingCommand, S3Client } from "@aws-sdk/client-s3";

const client = new S3Client({
  endpoint: "https://s3.eu-central-1.strg.com",
  region: "eu-central-1",
});

await client.send(new DeleteBucketTaggingCommand({ Bucket: "my-bucket" }));

Related

• GetBucketTagging
• DeleteObjectTagging
• GetObjectTagging
• Access keys
• S3 API overview - including the other S3 operations