Snapshot Management automates taking snapshots of your Amazon OpenSearch Service domain, including data and configurations, enabling point-in-time backups for recovery and cloning environments.

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<p>This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Snapshot Management in Amazon OpenSearch Service to automate taking snapshots of your domain, including both data and configuration settings. It covers the benefits of using Snapshot Management and how it overcomes the limitations of the previous Index State Management (ISM) approach.</p>
<p>Specifically, the article covers:</p>
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<li>Solution overview and high-level steps</li>
<li>Registering a manual snapshot repository in Amazon S3</li>
<li>Creating an index template for new indices</li>
<li>Creating an ISM policy to migrate indices to UltraWarm storage and update aliases</li>
<li>Creating a Snapshot Management policy to automate snapshots on a schedule</li>
<li>Cleaning up snapshots and resources</li>
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Unleash the power of Snapshot Management to take automated snapshots using Amazon OpenSearch Service

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