---
title: "deleteObject | Grafana k6 documentation"
description: "S3Client.deleteObject deletes an object from a bucket"
---

# deleteObject

`S3Client.deleteObject` deletes an object from a bucket.

### Parameters

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| Parameter  | Type   | Description                                   |
|------------|--------|-----------------------------------------------|
| bucketName | string | Name of the bucket to delete the object from. |
| objectKey  | string | Name of the object to delete.                 |

### Returns

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| Type            | Description                                                       |
|-----------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `Promise<void>` | A promise that fulfills when the object has been deleted from S3. |

### Example

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```javascript
import exec from 'k6/execution';

import {
  AWSConfig,
  S3Client,
} from 'https://jslib.k6.io/aws/0.14.0/s3.js';

const awsConfig = new AWSConfig({
  region: __ENV.AWS_REGION,
  accessKeyId: __ENV.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID,
  secretAccessKey: __ENV.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY,
});

const s3 = new S3Client(awsConfig);
const testBucketName = 'test-jslib-aws';
const testFileKey = 'bonjour.txt';

export default async function () {
  // Let's delete our test object
  await s3.deleteObject(testBucketName, testFileKey);

  // And make sure it was indeed deleted
  const objects = await s3.listObjects();
  if (objects.filter((o) => o.name === testBucketName).length != 0) {
    exec.test.abort();
  }
}
```

*A k6 script that will delete an object from a S3 bucket*