Compressing backup files

To save space in your Amazon S3 bucket, you can compress your backup files. For more information about compressing backup files, see Backup compression in the Microsoft documentation.

Compressing your backup files is supported for the following database editions:

To turn on compression for your backup files, run the following code:

exec rdsadmin.dbo.rds_set_configuration 'S3 backup compression', 'true';

To turn off compression for your backup files, run the following code:

exec rdsadmin.dbo.rds_set_configuration 'S3 backup compression', 'false';