There was a time a while ago when multiple companies reported that they accidentally deleted a bucket and asked us to restore its content.
Unfortunately, we do not have a way to restore the content of deleted buckets.
Therefore, it's very important for you to make sure that the bucket you're deleting and all its contents are not needed.
There is now a way for 3rd parties to mark important buckets as "protected", and prevent accidental deletion:
POST Protect Bucket
This way you can only delete an important bucket in two steps: first you have to make the bucket unprotected and only then can you delete it.
This is the message you get if you try to delete a protected bucket:
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Server: nginx
Date: Thu, 07 May 2026 17:00:59 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8
Content-Length: 42
Connection: close
x-ads-region: US
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
x-request-id: db934b42-b5f1-4228-a2a3-3ff090399039
Cannot delete protected bucket <name of bucket>