Recovery Service provides predefined protection policies to suit common use cases for backup retention. You can optionally create custom protection policies to suit your internal data retention requirements.

1. In the navigation menu, select Oracle Database, and then select Database Backups to view the Database Backups page.
2. Click Protection Policies.
3. Recovery Service provides four Oracle-defined protection policies based on typical use cases for backup retention. You cannot modify these policies:
   • Platinum: 95 days
   • Gold: 65 days
   • Silver: 35 days
   • Bronze: 14 days
4. Optionally, create a custom policy to suit your backup retention requirements. See: Creating a Protection Policy.