AOSSUS03-BP03 Take manual snapshots of your indices only when it is difficult to recreate the dataset

Reduce unnecessary snapshot creation, Amazon EBS, and Amazon S3 storage costs by taking manual snapshots only when it's difficult to recreate the dataset.

Level of risk exposed if this best practice is not established: Medium

Desired outcome: You take manual snapshots of indices only when it is difficult to recreate the dataset, reducing unnecessary snapshot creation and Amazon S3 storage.

Benefits of establishing this best practice:

Implementation guidance

Snapshots in Amazon OpenSearch Service serve as backups for a domain's indexes and state. Excessive snapshot leads to unnecessary storage and energy wastage.

Delete unneeded snapshots using DELETE _snapshot/repository-name/snapshot-name.

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