Deleting S3 Tables resources

S3 Tables still does not provide a great console experience despite being around for two-ish years now. This is evident when looking for an easy way to delete the resoure you create with it through the console. So here are some easy AWS CLI commands I’ve been using to delete resources when testing S3 Tables. First, there’s three resources types that get created, a table, a namespace and a table bucket. You can have multiple tables in a namespace and multiple namespaces in a bucket. With this mapping in mind, you have to be aware that you cannot delete a parent resource without first deleting all its child resources. So you’ll have to work from the bottom up. In my example below, as it is also common in my testing, I have one resource under each other, so that’s what I’m going with. Deleting resources cannot be undone, so beware! Piece by piece Deleting a table can be done from the CLI or through a query (i.e. through Athena, DuckDB or similar). It’s the only one of the three resources…