S3 bucket keeps having log files added

Question

I don't know why, but I keep trying to empty a bucket and it keeps creating more log files. Does anyone know how to stop this? I haven't used this bucket in years and just want to delete it, but need to empty it first.
They're formatted as:
log_2023-09-03-23-12-34-BFB4EDE6B444B339
and are being created every few seconds.

Accepted Answer

Hello.

It is probably an S3 bucket created for S3 server access logs.  
Try deactivating the S3 server access log or remove the bucket policy and change it so that the access log cannot be output.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/ServerLogs.html

Answer

Hi,

You might have enabled logging for the S3 bucket, and each of your operations with S3 objects is logged. So, basically, when you delete `log_2023-09-03-23-12-34-BFB4EDE6B444B339` file, you have another one with the record that the file has been deleted.

You need to disable [S3 server access logging](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/enable-server-access-logging.html), then empty the bucket and finally delete it.

S3 bucket keeps having log files added

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