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Take manual snapshots and restore in a different domain spanning across various Regions and accounts in Amazon OpenSearch Service

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This article provides a detailed walkthrough on how to efficiently capture and manage manual snapshots in Amazon OpenSearch Service, and how to restore them in a new domain across different AWS Regions and accounts.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Understanding manual snapshots and their use cases
  • Solution overview for taking manual snapshots and restoring across accounts/regions
  • Step-by-step guide for creating required IAM roles and users
  • Registering a snapshot repository and taking manual snapshots
  • Setting up S3 bucket replication for cross-account/region access
  • Registering the repository and restoring snapshots in the target domain
  • Troubleshooting common errors


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