Disabling S3Guard and Destroying a S3Guard Database

You can disable S3Guard and destroy a S3Guard database.

Delete the per-bucket fs.s3a.metadatastore.impl parameter or set it back to the default org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.s3guard.NullMetadataStore.
If you are not using a shared table, in DynamoDB console on AWS, delete the DynamoDB table to avoid incurring unnecessary costs.
The command hadoop s3guard destroy can be used on the command line to destroy a table.
```
> hadoop s3guard destroy s3a://guarded-table/
            
            2019-07-31 20:48:18,448 [main] INFO  s3guard.S3GuardTool (S3GuardTool.java:initMetadataStore(321)) - Metadata store DynamoDBMetadataStore{region=eu-west-2, tableName=s3guard-metadata, tableArn=arn:aws:dynamodb:eu-west-2:980678866538:table/s3guard-metadata} is initialized.
            2019-07-31 20:48:18,450 [main] INFO  s3guard.DynamoDBMetadataStore (DynamoDBMetadataStore.java:destroy(1416)) - Deleting DynamoDB table s3guard-metadata in region eu-west-2
            Metadata store is deleted
          
```
Destroying a table does not destroy the data in S3; it merely removes the summary data used by S3Guard to provide consistent listings.We can verify this by listing the bucket:
```
> hadoop fs -ls -R  s3a://guarded-table/
            -rw-rw-rw-   1 alice alice          0 2019-07-31 20:45 s3a://guarded-table/example
          
```
note
Even though hadoop fs commands can print the owner and permissions of a file, these are not real attributes of the object, and generated for the benefit of applications which check them. The owner and group of a file or directory is always the user for whom the S3A Filesystem was instantiated File permissions are always read and write, while directories are read, write and execute —irrespective of any underlying access permissions on the objects.