When using aptly to 'unpublish' an old repository backed by s3, we noticed that deleting the files took a very long time. After investigating we found that aptly was issuing delete command on files one-by-one. For a normal Debian repository this can take a long time.
S3 protocol can support multi-object deletion, which allows for bulk deleting objects and greatly speeds up this round trip.
When using aptly to 'unpublish' an old repository backed by s3, we noticed that deleting the files took a very long time. After investigating we found that aptly was issuing delete command on files one-by-one. For a normal Debian repository this can take a long time.
S3 protocol can support multi-object deletion, which allows for bulk deleting objects and greatly speeds up this round trip.