diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/smoketest/s3/bucketlifecycle.robot b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/smoketest/s3/bucketlifecycle.robot
index c82e066dab5..02e9f1fd22c 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/smoketest/s3/bucketlifecycle.robot
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dist/src/main/smoketest/s3/bucketlifecycle.robot
@@ -55,3 +55,9 @@ Delete bucket lifecycle configuration
                         Should Be Empty         ${result}
     ${result} =         Execute AWSS3APICli and checkrc     get-bucket-lifecycle-configuration --bucket ${bucket}    255
                         Should contain          ${result}           NoSuchLifecycleConfiguration
+
+Delete bucket lifecycle configuration when none exists
+    [tags]    no-bucket-type
+    ${bucket} =         Create bucket
+    ${result} =         Execute AWSS3APICli     delete-bucket-lifecycle --bucket ${bucket}
+                        Should Be Empty         ${result}
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/integration-test-s3/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/awssdk/v1/AbstractS3SDKV1Tests.java b/hadoop-ozone/integration-test-s3/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/awssdk/v1/AbstractS3SDKV1Tests.java
index fc634a44f78..839c81f152a 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/integration-test-s3/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/awssdk/v1/AbstractS3SDKV1Tests.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/integration-test-s3/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/awssdk/v1/AbstractS3SDKV1Tests.java
@@ -2156,8 +2156,8 @@ public void testS3LifecycleConfigurationDelete() {
 
     // Test delete lifecycle for a bucket, while doesn't have lifecycle
     assertNull(s3Client.getBucketLifecycleConfiguration(bucketName));
-    assertThrows(AmazonServiceException.class,
-        () -> s3Client.deleteBucketLifecycleConfiguration(bucketName));
+    // Idempotent delete: no exception expected even without an existing config
+    s3Client.deleteBucketLifecycleConfiguration(bucketName);
 
     // First create a lifecycle configuration
     BucketLifecycleConfiguration configuration = new BucketLifecycleConfiguration();
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/endpoint/BucketCrudHandler.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/endpoint/BucketCrudHandler.java
index 23c4da2cfa2..6b716993ef0 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/endpoint/BucketCrudHandler.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/endpoint/BucketCrudHandler.java
@@ -156,11 +156,11 @@ protected void deleteLifecycleConfiguration(S3RequestContext context, String buc
     try {
       context.getVolume().getBucket(bucketName).deleteLifecycleConfiguration();
     } catch (OMException ex) {
-      if (ex.getResult() == OMException.ResultCodes.LIFECYCLE_CONFIGURATION_NOT_FOUND) {
-        throw S3ErrorTable.newError(
-            S3ErrorTable.NO_SUCH_LIFECYCLE_CONFIGURATION, bucketName);
+      // DeleteBucketLifecycle is idempotent: deleting a missing config
+      // must still return 204, not 404 — same as normal key deletion.
+      if (ex.getResult() != OMException.ResultCodes.LIFECYCLE_CONFIGURATION_NOT_FOUND) {
+        throw S3ErrorTable.newError(bucketName, ex);
       }
-      throw ex;
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/endpoint/TestS3LifecycleConfigurationDelete.java b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/endpoint/TestS3LifecycleConfigurationDelete.java
index 5022320fb22..5080f192b9c 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/endpoint/TestS3LifecycleConfigurationDelete.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/s3gateway/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/s3/endpoint/TestS3LifecycleConfigurationDelete.java
@@ -55,14 +55,10 @@ public void setup() throws Exception {
   @Test
   public void testDeleteNonExistentLifecycleConfiguration()
       throws Exception {
-    try {
-      bucketEndpoint.delete("bucket1");
-      fail();
-    } catch (OS3Exception ex) {
-      assertEquals(HTTP_NOT_FOUND, ex.getHttpCode());
-      assertEquals(NO_SUCH_LIFECYCLE_CONFIGURATION.getCode(),
-              ex.getCode());
-    }
+    // DeleteBucketLifecycle is idempotent: deleting a non-existent
+    // configuration must succeed with 204, not fail with 404.
+    Response r = bucketEndpoint.delete("bucket1");
+    assertEquals(HTTP_NO_CONTENT, r.getStatus());
   }
 
   @Test