You can now enable your instance to take a final backup at instance deletion and define its retention period by setting the final backup instance setting

## Feature You can now enable your instance to take a final backup at instance deletion and define its retention period by setting the final backup [instance setting](https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/instance-settings). You can also create a [custom organization policy](https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/org-policy/custom-org-policy) to define final backup instance settings. For more information, see [Final backup](https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/sqlserver/backup-recovery/backups#final-backup).