diff --git a/lambdas/indexer/.chalice/config.json.template.py b/lambdas/indexer/.chalice/config.json.template.py
index 6751ef223e..dd77ae946b 100644
--- a/lambdas/indexer/.chalice/config.json.template.py
+++ b/lambdas/indexer/.chalice/config.json.template.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
     "manage_iam_role": False,
     "iam_role_arn": "${aws_iam_role.%s.arn}" % app_name,
     "environment_variables": config.lambda_env,
-    "minimum_compression_size": config.minimum_compression_size,
     "lambda_timeout": config.api_gateway_lambda_timeout,
     "lambda_memory_size": 128,
     **chalice.vpc_lambda_config(app_name),
diff --git a/lambdas/service/.chalice/config.json.template.py b/lambdas/service/.chalice/config.json.template.py
index 46747fb3d4..c40dff9442 100644
--- a/lambdas/service/.chalice/config.json.template.py
+++ b/lambdas/service/.chalice/config.json.template.py
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
     "manage_iam_role": False,
     "iam_role_arn": "${aws_iam_role.%s.arn}" % app_name,
     "environment_variables": config.lambda_env,
-    "minimum_compression_size": config.minimum_compression_size,
     "lambda_timeout": config.api_gateway_lambda_timeout,
     "lambda_memory_size": 2048,
     **chalice.vpc_lambda_config(app_name),
diff --git a/src/azul/terraform.py b/src/azul/terraform.py
index 84b5fffad9..3912acc100 100644
--- a/src/azul/terraform.py
+++ b/src/azul/terraform.py
@@ -793,6 +793,17 @@ def tf_config(self, app_name):
         del deployment['lifecycle']
         deployment['triggers'] = {'redeployment': deployment.pop('stage_description')}
 
+        # Using these AWS API Gateway extensions to the OpenAPI specification
+        # avoids maintaining a complicated `replace_triggered_by` and `triggers`
+        # dependency between Terraform resources in order to ensure that the API
+        # gateway is deployed when these properties are modified.
+        #
+        swagger_doc = json.loads(locals[app_name])
+        swagger_doc.update({
+            'x-amazon-apigateway-minimum-compression-size': config.minimum_compression_size
+        })
+        locals[app_name] = json.dumps(swagger_doc)
+
         return {
             'resource': resources,
             'data': data,