Official Elastic Cloud pricing — compare serverless and hosted offerings | Elastic
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Elastic Cloud makes it easy to launch and scale Search, Observability, and Security with flexible hosted and serverless options. Compare solutions and deployment to find the right fit.
Elasticsearch
Build search and vector database applications.
Serverless Hosted Self-managed
Elastic Observability
Monitor health and resolve issues for apps and infrastructure.
Serverless Hosted Self-managed
Elastic Security
Protect, investigate, and respond to cyber threats.
Serverless Hosted Self-managed
Elastic Cloud: Hosted vs. Serverless
The flexibility to choose between control and simplicity
Hosted
Operations
- Full visibility and control over HW configuration, clusters size, node count, and versions
Scalability
- Custom control over cluster capacity
Pricing
- Resource based pricing
Cloud and regions
- AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba, FedRamp 60 regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Capabilities
- All solutions and platform capabilities
Support
- Four support tiers, depending on the Elastic Cloud subscription tier
Uptime SLA
- 99.95% Monthly Uptime SLA for Platinum and Enterprise subscription tiers. See Elastic Cloud Hosted SLA for more details.
Serverless
Operations
- Fully managed, just bring your data. Elastic manages all HW configuration, clusters size, node count, and versions.
Scalability
- Automatically scales up and down based on search and indexing load to optimize performance
Pricing
- Usage based pricing
Cloud and regions
- Currently generally available in AWS, GCP, and Azure (see a list of supported regions)
Capabilities
- Most solution and platform capabilities
Support
- Four support tiers, depending on the Elastic Cloud subscription tier
Uptime SLA
- 99.95% Monthly Uptime SLA for Platinum and Enterprise subscription tiers. See Elastic Cloud Serverless SLA for more details.
Self-managed
Operations
- Full control over deployment location, HW setup and configuration, orchestration, clusters size, node count, and versions
Scalability
- Custom control over cluster capacity, storage-based autoscaling available in ECE and ECK
Pricing
- License based pricing Licensing based on number of nodes and used RAM
Cloud and regions
- Deploy anywhere: on-prem or in private or public cloud
Capabilities
- Notable upcoming features: traffic filtering, cross project search, and bring your own key
See a detailed roadmap of upcoming features
Support
- Two subscription tiers (Platinum and Enterprise) with identical support SLA
Uptime SLA
- Not applicable, as infrastructure is self-managed by the customer
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AWS Marketplace
Elastic on AWS gives you the ability to run prebuilt SaaS solutions for search, observability, and security.
Azure Marketplace
Elastic on Microsoft Azure gives you the ability to deploy Elasticsearch directly within the Azure portal.
Google Marketplace
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