- Written by Brenton Strickler
- January 13th, 2015
- About AWS
Amazon RDS MySQL Downsizing
Amazon RDS does not allow allocated storage to be reduced. This makes sense to me, but I want to do it anyway. I’m working with an RDS multi-zone master and a read replica. Allocated storage space and IOPS can quickly get expensive. Before downsizing, I also want to compress a few large tables without maintenance downtime.