diff --git a/weed/s3api/s3api_object_handlers.go b/weed/s3api/s3api_object_handlers.go
index 6bcf2266f..4d6c18a78 100644
--- a/weed/s3api/s3api_object_handlers.go
+++ b/weed/s3api/s3api_object_handlers.go
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/chrislusf/seaweedfs/weed/util"
 )
 
+const (
+	deleteMultipleObjectsLimmit = 1000
+)
+
 func mimeDetect(r *http.Request, dataReader io.Reader) io.ReadCloser {
 	mimeBuffer := make([]byte, 512)
 	size, _ := dataReader.Read(mimeBuffer)
@@ -217,6 +221,11 @@ func (s3a *S3ApiServer) DeleteMultipleObjectsHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *h
 		return
 	}
 
+	if len(deleteObjects.Objects) > deleteMultipleObjectsLimmit {
+		s3err.WriteErrorResponse(w, r, s3err.ErrInvalidMaxDeleteObjects)
+		return
+	}
+
 	var deletedObjects []ObjectIdentifier
 	var deleteErrors []DeleteError
 	var auditLog *s3err.AccessLog
diff --git a/weed/s3api/s3err/s3api_errors.go b/weed/s3api/s3err/s3api_errors.go
index f4a83d979..52803f398 100644
--- a/weed/s3api/s3err/s3api_errors.go
+++ b/weed/s3api/s3err/s3api_errors.go
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ const (
 	ErrInvalidMaxKeys
 	ErrInvalidMaxUploads
 	ErrInvalidMaxParts
+	ErrInvalidMaxDeleteObjects
 	ErrInvalidPartNumberMarker
 	ErrInvalidPart
 	ErrInternalError
@@ -157,6 +158,11 @@ var errorCodeResponse = map[ErrorCode]APIError{
 		Description:    "Argument max-parts must be an integer between 0 and 2147483647",
 		HTTPStatusCode: http.StatusBadRequest,
 	},
+	ErrInvalidMaxDeleteObjects: {
+		Code:           "InvalidArgument",
+		Description:    "Argument objects can contain a list of up to 1000 keys",
+		HTTPStatusCode: http.StatusBadRequest,
+	},
 	ErrInvalidPartNumberMarker: {
 		Code:           "InvalidArgument",
 		Description:    "Argument partNumberMarker must be an integer.",