diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/Lists.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/Lists.java
index b6d74ee679..5d9cc0502a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/Lists.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/Lists.java
@@ -232,4 +232,28 @@ private static <T> boolean addAll(Collection<T> addTo,
     return addAll(addTo, elementsToAdd.iterator());
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns consecutive sub-lists of a list, each of the same size
+   * (the final list may be smaller).
+   * @param originalList original big list.
+   * @param pageSize desired size of each sublist ( last one
+   *                 may be smaller)
+   * @return a list of sub lists.
+   */
+  public static <T> List<List<T>> partition(List<T> originalList, int pageSize) {
+
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(originalList != null && originalList.size() > 0,
+            "Invalid original list");
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(pageSize > 0, "Page size should " +
+            "be greater than 0 for performing partition");
+
+    List<List<T>> result = new ArrayList<>();
+    int i=0;
+    while (i < originalList.size()) {
+      result.add(originalList.subList(i,
+              Math.min(i + pageSize, originalList.size())));
+      i = i + pageSize;
+    }
+    return result;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestLists.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestLists.java
index 537e3781ed..53241da695 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestLists.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/util/TestLists.java
@@ -18,9 +18,11 @@
 
 package org.apache.hadoop.util;
 
+import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.Assert;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
@@ -79,6 +81,48 @@ public void testItrLinkedLists() {
     Assert.assertEquals(4, list.size());
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testListsPartition() {
+    List<String> list = new ArrayList<>();
+    list.add("a");
+    list.add("b");
+    list.add("c");
+    list.add("d");
+    list.add("e");
+    List<List<String>> res = Lists.
+            partition(list, 2);
+    Assertions.assertThat(res)
+            .describedAs("Number of partitions post partition")
+            .hasSize(3);
+    Assertions.assertThat(res.get(0))
+            .describedAs("Number of elements in first partition")
+            .hasSize(2);
+    Assertions.assertThat(res.get(2))
+            .describedAs("Number of elements in last partition")
+            .hasSize(1);
+
+    List<List<String>> res2 = Lists.
+            partition(list, 1);
+    Assertions.assertThat(res2)
+            .describedAs("Number of partitions post partition")
+            .hasSize(5);
+    Assertions.assertThat(res2.get(0))
+            .describedAs("Number of elements in first partition")
+            .hasSize(1);
+    Assertions.assertThat(res2.get(4))
+            .describedAs("Number of elements in last partition")
+            .hasSize(1);
+
+    List<List<String>> res3 = Lists.
+            partition(list, 6);
+    Assertions.assertThat(res3)
+            .describedAs("Number of partitions post partition")
+            .hasSize(1);
+    Assertions.assertThat(res3.get(0))
+            .describedAs("Number of elements in first partition")
+            .hasSize(5);
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void testArrayListWithSize() {
     List<String> list = Lists.newArrayListWithCapacity(3);
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
index c8a73d956d..86da70ecdd 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3AFileSystem.java
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.token.TokenIdentifier;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.DurationInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.LambdaUtils;
+import org.apache.hadoop.util.Lists;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.Preconditions;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileAlreadyExistsException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileStatus;
@@ -225,6 +226,7 @@
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.impl.IOStatisticsBinding.trackDurationOfOperation;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.impl.IOStatisticsBinding.trackDurationOfSupplier;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils.cleanupWithLogger;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.util.Preconditions.checkArgument;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.util.functional.RemoteIterators.typeCastingRemoteIterator;
 
 /**
@@ -550,6 +552,8 @@ public void initialize(URI name, Configuration originalConf)
 
       pageSize = intOption(getConf(), BULK_DELETE_PAGE_SIZE,
           BULK_DELETE_PAGE_SIZE_DEFAULT, 0);
+      checkArgument(pageSize <= InternalConstants.MAX_ENTRIES_TO_DELETE,
+              "page size out of range: %s", pageSize);
       listing = new Listing(listingOperationCallbacks, createStoreContext());
     } catch (AmazonClientException e) {
       // amazon client exception: stop all services then throw the translation
@@ -2026,14 +2030,12 @@ public CopyResult copyFile(final String srcKey,
     }
 
     @Override
-    public DeleteObjectsResult removeKeys(
-        final List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-        final boolean deleteFakeDir,
-        final boolean quiet)
+    public void removeKeys(
+            final List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
+            final boolean deleteFakeDir)
         throws MultiObjectDeleteException, AmazonClientException, IOException {
       auditSpan.activate();
-      return S3AFileSystem.this.removeKeys(keysToDelete, deleteFakeDir,
-          quiet);
+      S3AFileSystem.this.removeKeys(keysToDelete, deleteFakeDir);
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -2818,10 +2820,6 @@ public void incrementPutProgressStatistics(String key, long bytes) {
    * @param keysToDelete collection of keys to delete on the s3-backend.
    *        if empty, no request is made of the object store.
    * @param deleteFakeDir indicates whether this is for deleting fake dirs
-   * @param quiet should a bulk query be quiet, or should its result list
-   * all deleted keys?
-   * @return the deletion result if a multi object delete was invoked
-   * and it returned without a failure.
    * @throws InvalidRequestException if the request was rejected due to
    * a mistaken attempt to delete the root directory.
    * @throws MultiObjectDeleteException one or more of the keys could not
@@ -2831,10 +2829,9 @@ public void incrementPutProgressStatistics(String key, long bytes) {
    * @throws AmazonClientException other amazon-layer failure.
    */
   @Retries.RetryRaw
-  private DeleteObjectsResult removeKeysS3(
-      List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-      boolean deleteFakeDir,
-      boolean quiet)
+  private void removeKeysS3(
+          List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
+          boolean deleteFakeDir)
       throws MultiObjectDeleteException, AmazonClientException,
       IOException {
     if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
@@ -2847,16 +2844,28 @@ private DeleteObjectsResult removeKeysS3(
     }
     if (keysToDelete.isEmpty()) {
       // exit fast if there are no keys to delete
-      return null;
+      return;
     }
     for (DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion keyVersion : keysToDelete) {
       blockRootDelete(keyVersion.getKey());
     }
-    DeleteObjectsResult result = null;
     try {
       if (enableMultiObjectsDelete) {
-        result = deleteObjects(
-            getRequestFactory().newBulkDeleteRequest(keysToDelete, quiet));
+        if (keysToDelete.size() <= pageSize) {
+          deleteObjects(getRequestFactory()
+                  .newBulkDeleteRequest(keysToDelete));
+        } else {
+          // Multi object deletion of more than 1000 keys is not supported
+          // by s3. So we are paging the keys by page size.
+          LOG.debug("Partitioning the keys to delete as it is more than " +
+                  "page size. Number of keys: {}, Page size: {}",
+                  keysToDelete.size(), pageSize);
+          for (List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> batchOfKeysToDelete :
+                  Lists.partition(keysToDelete, pageSize)) {
+            deleteObjects(getRequestFactory()
+                    .newBulkDeleteRequest(batchOfKeysToDelete));
+          }
+        }
       } else {
         for (DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion keyVersion : keysToDelete) {
           deleteObject(keyVersion.getKey());
@@ -2872,7 +2881,6 @@ private DeleteObjectsResult removeKeysS3(
       throw ex;
     }
     noteDeleted(keysToDelete.size(), deleteFakeDir);
-    return result;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -2889,7 +2897,7 @@ private void noteDeleted(final int count, final boolean deleteFakeDir) {
   }
 
   /**
-   * Invoke {@link #removeKeysS3(List, boolean, boolean)}.
+   * Invoke {@link #removeKeysS3(List, boolean)}.
    * If a {@code MultiObjectDeleteException} is raised, the
    * relevant statistics are updated.
    *
@@ -2910,35 +2918,9 @@ public void removeKeys(
       final boolean deleteFakeDir)
       throws MultiObjectDeleteException, AmazonClientException,
       IOException {
-    removeKeys(keysToDelete, deleteFakeDir,
-        true);
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Invoke {@link #removeKeysS3(List, boolean, boolean)}.
-   * @param keysToDelete collection of keys to delete on the s3-backend.
-   *        if empty, no request is made of the object store.
-   * @param deleteFakeDir indicates whether this is for deleting fake dirs.
-   * @param quiet should a bulk query be quiet, or should its result list
-   * all deleted keys
-   * @return the deletion result if a multi object delete was invoked
-   * and it returned without a failure, else null.
-   * @throws InvalidRequestException if the request was rejected due to
-   * a mistaken attempt to delete the root directory.
-   * @throws MultiObjectDeleteException one or more of the keys could not
-   * be deleted in a multiple object delete operation.
-   * @throws AmazonClientException amazon-layer failure.
-   * @throws IOException other IO Exception.
-   */
-  @Retries.RetryRaw
-  private DeleteObjectsResult removeKeys(
-      final List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-      final boolean deleteFakeDir,
-      final boolean quiet)
-      throws MultiObjectDeleteException, AmazonClientException, IOException {
     try (DurationInfo ignored = new DurationInfo(LOG, false,
-        "Deleting %d keys", keysToDelete.size())) {
-      return removeKeysS3(keysToDelete, deleteFakeDir, quiet);
+            "Deleting %d keys", keysToDelete.size())) {
+      removeKeysS3(keysToDelete, deleteFakeDir);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/api/RequestFactory.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/api/RequestFactory.java
index ee5728688b..97a15d9513 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/api/RequestFactory.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/api/RequestFactory.java
@@ -291,12 +291,9 @@ ListObjectsV2Request newListObjectsV2Request(String key,
   /**
    * Bulk delete request.
    * @param keysToDelete list of keys to delete.
-   * @param quiet should a bulk query be quiet, or should its result list
-   * all deleted keys?
    * @return the request
    */
   DeleteObjectsRequest newBulkDeleteRequest(
-      List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-      boolean quiet);
+          List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete);
 
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/DeleteOperation.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/DeleteOperation.java
index 3d2ab22b44..a45bfe46f1 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/DeleteOperation.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/DeleteOperation.java
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsRequest;
-import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsResult;
 import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListeningExecutorService;
 import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -365,8 +364,7 @@ private CompletableFuture<Void> submitDelete(
         callableWithinAuditSpan(
             getAuditSpan(), () -> {
               asyncDeleteAction(
-                  keyList,
-                  LOG.isDebugEnabled());
+                  keyList);
               return null;
             }));
   }
@@ -376,20 +374,16 @@ private CompletableFuture<Void> submitDelete(
    * the keys from S3 and paths from S3Guard.
    *
    * @param keyList keys to delete.
-   * @param auditDeletedKeys should the results be audited and undeleted
    * entries logged?
    * @throws IOException failure
    */
   @Retries.RetryTranslated
   private void asyncDeleteAction(
-      final List<DeleteEntry> keyList,
-      final boolean auditDeletedKeys)
+      final List<DeleteEntry> keyList)
       throws IOException {
-    List<DeleteObjectsResult.DeletedObject> deletedObjects = new ArrayList<>();
     try (DurationInfo ignored =
              new DurationInfo(LOG, false,
                  "Delete page of %d keys", keyList.size())) {
-      DeleteObjectsResult result;
       if (!keyList.isEmpty()) {
         // first delete the files.
         List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> files = keyList.stream()
@@ -397,15 +391,12 @@ private void asyncDeleteAction(
             .map(e -> e.keyVersion)
             .collect(Collectors.toList());
         LOG.debug("Deleting of {} file objects", files.size());
-        result = Invoker.once("Remove S3 Files",
+        Invoker.once("Remove S3 Files",
             status.getPath().toString(),
             () -> callbacks.removeKeys(
                 files,
-                false,
-                !auditDeletedKeys));
-        if (result != null) {
-          deletedObjects.addAll(result.getDeletedObjects());
-        }
+                false
+            ));
         // now the dirs
         List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> dirs = keyList.stream()
             .filter(e -> e.isDirMarker)
@@ -413,32 +404,12 @@ private void asyncDeleteAction(
             .collect(Collectors.toList());
         LOG.debug("Deleting of {} directory markers", dirs.size());
         // This is invoked with deleteFakeDir.
-        result = Invoker.once("Remove S3 Dir Markers",
+        Invoker.once("Remove S3 Dir Markers",
             status.getPath().toString(),
             () -> callbacks.removeKeys(
                 dirs,
-                true,
-                !auditDeletedKeys));
-        if (result != null) {
-          deletedObjects.addAll(result.getDeletedObjects());
-        }
-      }
-      if (auditDeletedKeys) {
-        // audit the deleted keys
-        if (deletedObjects.size() != keyList.size()) {
-          // size mismatch
-          LOG.warn("Size mismatch in deletion operation. "
-                  + "Expected count of deleted files: {}; "
-                  + "actual: {}",
-              keyList.size(), deletedObjects.size());
-          // strip out the deleted keys
-          for (DeleteObjectsResult.DeletedObject del : deletedObjects) {
-            keyList.removeIf(kv -> kv.getKey().equals(del.getKey()));
-          }
-          for (DeleteEntry kv : keyList) {
-            LOG.debug("{}", kv.getKey());
-          }
-        }
+                true
+            ));
       }
     }
   }
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/OperationCallbacks.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/OperationCallbacks.java
index a72dc7e10b..ecfe2c0ba0 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/OperationCallbacks.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/OperationCallbacks.java
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 
 import com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsRequest;
-import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsResult;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.MultiObjectDeleteException;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.transfer.model.CopyResult;
 
@@ -138,10 +137,6 @@ CopyResult copyFile(String srcKey,
    * @param keysToDelete collection of keys to delete on the s3-backend.
    *        if empty, no request is made of the object store.
    * @param deleteFakeDir indicates whether this is for deleting fake dirs.
-   * @param quiet should a bulk query be quiet, or should its result list
-   * all deleted keys
-   * @return the deletion result if a multi object delete was invoked
-   * and it returned without a failure, else null.
    * @throws InvalidRequestException if the request was rejected due to
    * a mistaken attempt to delete the root directory.
    * @throws MultiObjectDeleteException one or more of the keys could not
@@ -150,10 +145,9 @@ CopyResult copyFile(String srcKey,
    * @throws IOException other IO Exception.
    */
   @Retries.RetryRaw
-  DeleteObjectsResult removeKeys(
-      List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-      boolean deleteFakeDir,
-      boolean quiet)
+  void removeKeys(
+          List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
+          boolean deleteFakeDir)
       throws MultiObjectDeleteException, AmazonClientException,
       IOException;
 
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/RenameOperation.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/RenameOperation.java
index c1700ef389..bc9ad669b5 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/RenameOperation.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/RenameOperation.java
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.CallableSupplier.submit;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.CallableSupplier.waitForCompletion;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.InternalConstants.RENAME_PARALLEL_LIMIT;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.util.Preconditions.checkArgument;
 
 /**
  * A parallelized rename operation.
@@ -155,6 +156,9 @@ public RenameOperation(
     this.destKey = destKey;
     this.destStatus = destStatus;
     this.callbacks = callbacks;
+    checkArgument(pageSize > 0
+                    && pageSize <= InternalConstants.MAX_ENTRIES_TO_DELETE,
+            "page size out of range: %s", pageSize);
     this.pageSize = pageSize;
   }
 
@@ -586,8 +590,8 @@ private void removeSourceObjects(
         sourcePath.toString(), () ->
             callbacks.removeKeys(
                 keys,
-                false,
-                true));
+                false
+            ));
   }
 
   /**
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/RequestFactoryImpl.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/RequestFactoryImpl.java
index 04cff49be3..fa58323dec 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/RequestFactoryImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/RequestFactoryImpl.java
@@ -575,12 +575,11 @@ public DeleteObjectRequest newDeleteObjectRequest(String key) {
 
   @Override
   public DeleteObjectsRequest newBulkDeleteRequest(
-      List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-      boolean quiet) {
+          List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete) {
     return prepareRequest(
         new DeleteObjectsRequest(bucket)
             .withKeys(keysToDelete)
-            .withQuiet(quiet));
+            .withQuiet(true));
   }
 
   @Override
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerTool.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerTool.java
index bd09ca652a..230f07793d 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerTool.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerTool.java
@@ -817,7 +817,7 @@ pages, suffix(pages),
           end);
       once("Remove S3 Keys",
           tracker.getBasePath().toString(), () ->
-              operations.removeKeys(page, true, false));
+              operations.removeKeys(page, true));
       summary.deleteRequests++;
       // and move to the start of the next page
       start = end;
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerToolOperations.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerToolOperations.java
index 7d7627dfc0..a701f86f7b 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerToolOperations.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerToolOperations.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
 import com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsRequest;
-import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsResult;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.MultiObjectDeleteException;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.InvalidRequestException;
@@ -58,10 +57,7 @@ RemoteIterator<S3AFileStatus> listObjects(
    * @param keysToDelete collection of keys to delete on the s3-backend.
    *        if empty, no request is made of the object store.
    * @param deleteFakeDir indicates whether this is for deleting fake dirs.
-   * @param quiet should a bulk query be quiet, or should its result list
    * all deleted keys
-   * @return the deletion result if a multi object delete was invoked
-   * and it returned without a failure, else null.
    * @throws InvalidRequestException if the request was rejected due to
    * a mistaken attempt to delete the root directory.
    * @throws MultiObjectDeleteException one or more of the keys could not
@@ -70,10 +66,9 @@ RemoteIterator<S3AFileStatus> listObjects(
    * @throws IOException other IO Exception.
    */
   @Retries.RetryMixed
-  DeleteObjectsResult removeKeys(
+  void removeKeys(
       List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-      boolean deleteFakeDir,
-      boolean quiet)
+      boolean deleteFakeDir)
       throws MultiObjectDeleteException, AmazonClientException,
              IOException;
 
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerToolOperationsImpl.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerToolOperationsImpl.java
index 7ccbc41bbe..ccf80e1dde 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerToolOperationsImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/tools/MarkerToolOperationsImpl.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
 import com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsRequest;
-import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsResult;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.MultiObjectDeleteException;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
@@ -55,13 +54,12 @@ public RemoteIterator<S3AFileStatus> listObjects(final Path path,
   }
 
   @Override
-  public DeleteObjectsResult removeKeys(
+  public void removeKeys(
       final List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-      final boolean deleteFakeDir,
-      final boolean quiet)
+      final boolean deleteFakeDir)
       throws MultiObjectDeleteException, AmazonClientException, IOException {
-    return operationCallbacks.removeKeys(keysToDelete, deleteFakeDir,
-        quiet);
+    operationCallbacks.removeKeys(keysToDelete, deleteFakeDir
+    );
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AFailureHandling.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AFailureHandling.java
index c34ba22b10..c0f6a4b232 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AFailureHandling.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/ITestS3AFailureHandling.java
@@ -20,10 +20,13 @@
 
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsRequest;
 
+import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.Assume;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocatedFileStatus;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.RemoteIterator;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.StoreStatisticNames;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.store.audit.AuditSpan;
 
@@ -37,9 +40,11 @@
 import java.nio.file.AccessDeniedException;
 
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.*;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3ATestUtils.createFiles;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.test.ExtraAssertions.failIf;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.MultiObjectDeleteSupport.*;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.test.LambdaTestUtils.*;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.util.functional.RemoteIterators.mappingRemoteIterator;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.util.functional.RemoteIterators.toList;
 
 /**
  * ITest for failure handling, primarily multipart deletion.
@@ -72,6 +77,37 @@ public void testMultiObjectDeleteNoFile() throws Throwable {
     removeKeys(getFileSystem(), "ITestS3AFailureHandling/missingFile");
   }
 
+  /**
+   * See HADOOP-18112.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testMultiObjectDeleteLargeNumKeys() throws Exception {
+    S3AFileSystem fs =  getFileSystem();
+    Path path = path("largeDir");
+    mkdirs(path);
+    createFiles(fs, path, 1, 1005, 0);
+    RemoteIterator<LocatedFileStatus> locatedFileStatusRemoteIterator =
+            fs.listFiles(path, false);
+    List<String> keys  = toList(mappingRemoteIterator(locatedFileStatusRemoteIterator,
+        locatedFileStatus -> fs.pathToKey(locatedFileStatus.getPath())));
+    // After implementation of paging during multi object deletion,
+    // no exception is encountered.
+    Long bulkDeleteReqBefore = getNumberOfBulkDeleteRequestsMadeTillNow(fs);
+    try (AuditSpan span = span()) {
+      fs.removeKeys(buildDeleteRequest(keys.toArray(new String[0])), false);
+    }
+    Long bulkDeleteReqAfter = getNumberOfBulkDeleteRequestsMadeTillNow(fs);
+    // number of delete requests is 5 as we have default page size of 250.
+    Assertions.assertThat(bulkDeleteReqAfter - bulkDeleteReqBefore)
+            .describedAs("Number of batched bulk delete requests")
+            .isEqualTo(5);
+  }
+
+  private Long getNumberOfBulkDeleteRequestsMadeTillNow(S3AFileSystem fs) {
+    return fs.getIOStatistics().counters()
+            .get(StoreStatisticNames.OBJECT_BULK_DELETE_REQUEST);
+  }
+
   private void removeKeys(S3AFileSystem fileSystem, String... keys)
       throws IOException {
     try (AuditSpan span = span()) {
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ATestUtils.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ATestUtils.java
index 55ddba9bbd..d965e6e57a 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ATestUtils.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/S3ATestUtils.java
@@ -52,7 +52,11 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.service.Service;
 import org.apache.hadoop.service.ServiceOperations;
+import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.base.Charsets;
+import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListeningExecutorService;
+import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.BlockingThreadPoolExecutorService;
+import org.apache.hadoop.util.DurationInfo;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.functional.CallableRaisingIOE;
 
@@ -70,6 +74,7 @@
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.text.DateFormat;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.TreeSet;
@@ -78,6 +83,10 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
+import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.createFile;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.CallableSupplier.submit;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.CallableSupplier.waitForCompletion;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.test.GenericTestUtils.buildPaths;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.util.Preconditions.checkNotNull;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.CommonConfigurationKeysPublic.HADOOP_SECURITY_CREDENTIAL_PROVIDER_PATH;
 import static org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils.isNotEmpty;
@@ -95,8 +104,23 @@
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
 @InterfaceStability.Unstable
 public final class S3ATestUtils {
+
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(
-      S3ATestUtils.class);
+          S3ATestUtils.class);
+
+  /** Many threads for scale performance: {@value}. */
+  public static final int EXECUTOR_THREAD_COUNT = 64;
+  /**
+   * For submitting work.
+   */
+  private static final ListeningExecutorService EXECUTOR =
+      MoreExecutors.listeningDecorator(
+          BlockingThreadPoolExecutorService.newInstance(
+              EXECUTOR_THREAD_COUNT,
+              EXECUTOR_THREAD_COUNT * 2,
+              30, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
+              "test-operations"));
+
 
   /**
    * Value to set a system property to (in maven) to declare that
@@ -821,6 +845,87 @@ public static StoreContext createMockStoreContext(
         .build();
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Write the text to a file asynchronously. Logs the operation duration.
+   * @param fs filesystem
+   * @param path path
+   * @return future to the patch created.
+   */
+  private static CompletableFuture<Path> put(FileSystem fs,
+      Path path, String text) {
+    return submit(EXECUTOR, () -> {
+      try (DurationInfo ignore =
+               new DurationInfo(LOG, false, "Creating %s", path)) {
+        createFile(fs, path, true, text.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8));
+        return path;
+      }
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Build a set of files in a directory tree.
+   * @param fs filesystem
+   * @param destDir destination
+   * @param depth file depth
+   * @param fileCount number of files to create.
+   * @param dirCount number of dirs to create at each level
+   * @return the list of files created.
+   */
+  public static List<Path> createFiles(final FileSystem fs,
+      final Path destDir,
+      final int depth,
+      final int fileCount,
+      final int dirCount) throws IOException {
+    return createDirsAndFiles(fs, destDir, depth, fileCount, dirCount,
+        new ArrayList<>(fileCount),
+        new ArrayList<>(dirCount));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Build a set of files in a directory tree.
+   * @param fs filesystem
+   * @param destDir destination
+   * @param depth file depth
+   * @param fileCount number of files to create.
+   * @param dirCount number of dirs to create at each level
+   * @param paths [out] list of file paths created
+   * @param dirs [out] list of directory paths created.
+   * @return the list of files created.
+   */
+  public static List<Path> createDirsAndFiles(final FileSystem fs,
+      final Path destDir,
+      final int depth,
+      final int fileCount,
+      final int dirCount,
+      final List<Path> paths,
+      final List<Path> dirs) throws IOException {
+    buildPaths(paths, dirs, destDir, depth, fileCount, dirCount);
+    List<CompletableFuture<Path>> futures = new ArrayList<>(paths.size()
+        + dirs.size());
+
+    // create directories. With dir marker retention, that adds more entries
+    // to cause deletion issues
+    try (DurationInfo ignore =
+             new DurationInfo(LOG, "Creating %d directories", dirs.size())) {
+      for (Path path : dirs) {
+        futures.add(submit(EXECUTOR, () ->{
+          fs.mkdirs(path);
+          return path;
+        }));
+      }
+      waitForCompletion(futures);
+    }
+
+    try (DurationInfo ignore =
+            new DurationInfo(LOG, "Creating %d files", paths.size())) {
+      for (Path path : paths) {
+        futures.add(put(fs, path, path.getName()));
+      }
+      waitForCompletion(futures);
+      return paths;
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Helper class to do diffs of metrics.
    */
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/ITestPartialRenamesDeletes.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/ITestPartialRenamesDeletes.java
index 068b7b2dda..378f4a7043 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/ITestPartialRenamesDeletes.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/ITestPartialRenamesDeletes.java
@@ -26,14 +26,9 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.TreeSet;
-import java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture;
-import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.MultiObjectDeleteException;
-import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.base.Charsets;
-import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.util.concurrent.ListeningExecutorService;
-import org.apache.hadoop.thirdparty.com.google.common.util.concurrent.MoreExecutors;
 import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -42,13 +37,11 @@
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
-import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.AbstractS3ATestBase;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3AFileSystem;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
-import org.apache.hadoop.util.BlockingThreadPoolExecutorService;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.DurationInfo;
 
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.contract.ContractTestUtils.*;
@@ -69,13 +62,10 @@
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.auth.RoleTestUtils.forbidden;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.auth.RoleTestUtils.newAssumedRoleConfig;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.auth.delegation.DelegationConstants.DELEGATION_TOKEN_BINDING;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.CallableSupplier.submit;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.CallableSupplier.waitForCompletion;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.test.ExtraAssertions.assertFileCount;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.test.ExtraAssertions.extractCause;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.statistics.IOStatisticsLogging.ioStatisticsSourceToString;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils.cleanupWithLogger;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.test.GenericTestUtils.buildPaths;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.test.LambdaTestUtils.eval;
 
 /**
@@ -112,20 +102,6 @@ public class ITestPartialRenamesDeletes extends AbstractS3ATestBase {
   private static final Statement STATEMENT_ALL_BUCKET_READ_ACCESS
       = statement(true, S3_ALL_BUCKETS, S3_BUCKET_READ_OPERATIONS);
 
-  /** Many threads for scale performance: {@value}. */
-  public static final int EXECUTOR_THREAD_COUNT = 64;
-
-  /**
-   * For submitting work.
-   */
-  private static final ListeningExecutorService EXECUTOR =
-      MoreExecutors.listeningDecorator(
-          BlockingThreadPoolExecutorService.newInstance(
-              EXECUTOR_THREAD_COUNT,
-              EXECUTOR_THREAD_COUNT * 2,
-              30, TimeUnit.SECONDS,
-              "test-operations"));
-
 
   /**
    * The number of files in a non-scaled test.
@@ -742,87 +718,6 @@ private Set<Path> listFilesUnderPath(Path path, boolean recursive)
     return files;
   }
 
-  /**
-   * Write the text to a file asynchronously. Logs the operation duration.
-   * @param fs filesystem
-   * @param path path
-   * @return future to the patch created.
-   */
-  private static CompletableFuture<Path> put(FileSystem fs,
-      Path path, String text) {
-    return submit(EXECUTOR, () -> {
-      try (DurationInfo ignore =
-               new DurationInfo(LOG, false, "Creating %s", path)) {
-        createFile(fs, path, true, text.getBytes(Charsets.UTF_8));
-        return path;
-      }
-    });
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Build a set of files in a directory tree.
-   * @param fs filesystem
-   * @param destDir destination
-   * @param depth file depth
-   * @param fileCount number of files to create.
-   * @param dirCount number of dirs to create at each level
-   * @return the list of files created.
-   */
-  public static List<Path> createFiles(final FileSystem fs,
-      final Path destDir,
-      final int depth,
-      final int fileCount,
-      final int dirCount) throws IOException {
-    return createDirsAndFiles(fs, destDir, depth, fileCount, dirCount,
-        new ArrayList<Path>(fileCount),
-        new ArrayList<Path>(dirCount));
-  }
-
-  /**
-   * Build a set of files in a directory tree.
-   * @param fs filesystem
-   * @param destDir destination
-   * @param depth file depth
-   * @param fileCount number of files to create.
-   * @param dirCount number of dirs to create at each level
-   * @param paths [out] list of file paths created
-   * @param dirs [out] list of directory paths created.
-   * @return the list of files created.
-   */
-  public static List<Path> createDirsAndFiles(final FileSystem fs,
-      final Path destDir,
-      final int depth,
-      final int fileCount,
-      final int dirCount,
-      final List<Path> paths,
-      final List<Path> dirs) throws IOException {
-    buildPaths(paths, dirs, destDir, depth, fileCount, dirCount);
-    List<CompletableFuture<Path>> futures = new ArrayList<>(paths.size()
-        + dirs.size());
-
-    // create directories. With dir marker retention, that adds more entries
-    // to cause deletion issues
-    try (DurationInfo ignore =
-             new DurationInfo(LOG, "Creating %d directories", dirs.size())) {
-      for (Path path : dirs) {
-        futures.add(submit(EXECUTOR, () ->{
-          fs.mkdirs(path);
-          return path;
-        }));
-      }
-      waitForCompletion(futures);
-    }
-
-    try (DurationInfo ignore =
-            new DurationInfo(LOG, "Creating %d files", paths.size())) {
-      for (Path path : paths) {
-        futures.add(put(fs, path, path.getName()));
-      }
-      waitForCompletion(futures);
-      return paths;
-    }
-  }
-
   /**
    * Verifies that s3:DeleteObjectVersion is not required for rename.
    * <p></p>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/TestRequestFactory.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/TestRequestFactory.java
index dbd89b960f..9bc3aef83a 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/TestRequestFactory.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/impl/TestRequestFactory.java
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ private void createFactoryObjects(RequestFactory factory) {
         new ArrayList<>()));
     a(factory.newCopyObjectRequest(path, path2, md));
     a(factory.newDeleteObjectRequest(path));
-    a(factory.newBulkDeleteRequest(new ArrayList<>(), true));
+    a(factory.newBulkDeleteRequest(new ArrayList<>()));
     a(factory.newDirectoryMarkerRequest(path));
     a(factory.newGetObjectRequest(path));
     a(factory.newGetObjectMetadataRequest(path));
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/scale/ITestS3ADeleteManyFiles.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/scale/ITestS3ADeleteManyFiles.java
index d5862bcb33..dbdd8b5da6 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/scale/ITestS3ADeleteManyFiles.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/scale/ITestS3ADeleteManyFiles.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Constants.EXPERIMENTAL_AWS_INTERNAL_THROTTLING;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.Constants.USER_AGENT_PREFIX;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3ATestUtils.lsR;
-import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.impl.ITestPartialRenamesDeletes.createFiles;
+import static org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3a.S3ATestUtils.createFiles;
 import static org.apache.hadoop.test.GenericTestUtils.filenameOfIndex;
 
 /**
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/test/MinimalOperationCallbacks.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/test/MinimalOperationCallbacks.java
index a2aebc8272..fa1ad2db62 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/test/MinimalOperationCallbacks.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/test/MinimalOperationCallbacks.java
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
 
 import com.amazonaws.AmazonClientException;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsRequest;
-import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.DeleteObjectsResult;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.MultiObjectDeleteException;
 import com.amazonaws.services.s3.transfer.model.CopyResult;
 
@@ -99,13 +98,11 @@ public CopyResult copyFile(
   }
 
   @Override
-  public DeleteObjectsResult removeKeys(
-      List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
-      boolean deleteFakeDir,
-      boolean quiet)
+  public void removeKeys(
+          List<DeleteObjectsRequest.KeyVersion> keysToDelete,
+          boolean deleteFakeDir)
       throws MultiObjectDeleteException, AmazonClientException,
              IOException {
-    return null;
   }
 
   @Override