Amazon OpenSearch Service is a fully managed service offered by AWS that enables you to deploy, operate, and scale OpenSearch domains effortlessly.
Snapshot and restore in OpenSearch Service involves creating point-in-time backups, known as snapshots, of your OpenSearch domain.
Snapshot and restore strategy helps organizations meet Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs).
The snapshot and restore strategy in OpenSearch Service results in longer downtimes and greater loss of data between when the disaster event occurs and recovery.
In the event of a disaster, you can fail over to the OpenSearch Service domain in the secondary Region using IaC.
Infrastructure as code (IaC) methods such as using AWS CloudFormation or the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) enable you to deploy consistent infrastructure across Regions.
In a disaster, if your OpenSearch Service domain in the primary Region goes down, you can fail over to a domain in the secondary Region.
To maintain business continuity during a disaster, you can use message queues like Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) and streaming solutions like Apache Kafka or Amazon Kinesis.
When the primary Region becomes available again, you can seamlessly revert to the OpenSearch Service domain in the primary Region.
In conclusion, by following the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar, you can achieve data resilience using Amazon OpenSearch Service disaster recovery with snapshot and restore.