We use ElasticSearch for

• Session Logs
• Analytics
• Leaderboards

We originally self managed the ElasticSearch clusters, but due to our small ops team size we opt to move things to managed AWS services where possible.

The managed servers, however, do not allow us to manage our own backups and a restore actually requires us to open a support ticket with them. We ended up setting up our own nightly backup since we do per day indexes for the logs/analytics. Elasticsearch