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I have a mysql DB on Amazon. It is bigger than I need and I don't want to pay so much.

How do I make it smaller? Their site says you have to do it some magic way (from backups or such), but I don't want to mistakenly wack it!

![RDS DB instance storage](https://i.stack.imgur.com/19xZp.png)