Elastic Cloud automatically creates a snapshot of all indexes in your cluster periodically (every 30 minutes) and keeps them for recovery purposes, if required. This happens automatically without doing any additional setup or code. You can visit the Snapshots link under your Deployments > Elasticsearch to view the available list of Snapshots, as follows:

You can choose the snapshot that you want to restore from, and you will be presented with the following screen:

The snapshot contains the saved state for all indexes in the cluster. It is possible to choose a subset of the indexes for restoring and also to rename it while restoring it. It is also possible to restore the snapshot on a separate cluster. 

Next, we will see how to get started with Elastic Stack if you are planning to manage the Elastic Stack components yourself. This is also called self-hosting, in that you will be hosting and managing it on your own.