As of 07/25/2024, all new Environments will have a default backup retention policy of:

• 30 daily backups

• 12 monthly backups

• 6 yearly backups

• Cross-region copies disabled

• Keep final backups enabled

This configuration still maintains 6 years of backups, as the previous default did, but reduces the overall number of backups retained over that period by over 6x, saving a significant amount on backup costs within a few months of databases coming online.

We've also added the backup recommendations in-app to make it easier to optimize existing environments.