Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) enhances the management and security of Elasticsearch clusters by supporting automated snapshots to user-defined repositories, such as AWS S3-compatible storage. This feature allows for incremental, point-in-time snapshots that are taken every 30 minutes and before any cluster topology changes, ensuring that data can be quickly restored in the event of unintended or destructive changes. ECE stores the last 100 snapshots per cluster, providing roughly two days' worth of backup retention. The automated snapshot process is efficient and minimally impacts cluster performance, making it a practical solution for managing multiple clusters. While currently supporting S3-compatible storage, ECE plans to expand its support to other storage options like Google Cloud Storage and Microsoft Azure Storage.