# Buckets aren\`t deleted

**URL:** <https://community.convox.com/t/buckets-aren-t-deleted/65>\
**Category:** Rack (Version 2)\
**Created:** [February 7, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/buckets-aren-t-deleted/65 "2019-02-07T13:36:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![ti-stg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@ti-stg](https://community.convox.com/u/ti-stg)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/buckets-aren-t-deleted/65/1 "2019-02-07T13:36:56Z")

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Hello,

When I delete one rack, some buckets with name “settings” aren`t deleted

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**Author:** ![ali](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.convox.com/ali/32/15_2.png) [@ali](https://community.convox.com/u/ali)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/buckets-aren-t-deleted/65/2 "2019-02-08T16:04:24Z")

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+1

It happens to me, all the time.

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**Author:** ![ddollar](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/community.convox.com/ddollar/32/3_2.png) [@ddollar](https://community.convox.com/u/ddollar)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2019, 4:15pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/buckets-aren-t-deleted/65/3 "2019-02-08T16:15:56Z")

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CloudFormation is not able to delete buckets that have any files in them so all of the S3 buckets in Convox stacks are marked `DeletionPolicy: Retain`

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**Author:** ![ti-stg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@ti-stg](https://community.convox.com/u/ti-stg)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.convox.com/t/buckets-aren-t-deleted/65/4 "2019-02-13T12:12:01Z")

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Hello, I think this buckets should be deleted, because they are configuration buckets and we don’t do anything to them