Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure doubles region availability

Elastic Cloud Serverless provides the fastest way to start and scale security, observability, and search solutions without managing infrastructure.

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We’re pleased to announce the availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure in the following regions around the world: 

  • East US 2 (Virginia), azure-eastus2

  • Southeast Asia (Singapore), azure-southeastasia

  • Spain Central (Spain), azure-spaincentral

  • Germany West Central (Frankfurt), azure-germanywestcentral

This expansion brings our total Azure regions for serverless to eight worldwide with a strong emphasis on strengthening our footprint in Europe and APAC.

Elastic Cloud Serverless is a new fully managed, stateless architecture that auto-scales to your data, usage, and performance needs. It gives users the full power of Elasticsearch without needing to handle ops, upgrades, or tuning. Built on the industry-first Search AI Lake architecture that relies on Azure Blob Storage, you can launch fast and tap into the latest features for retrieval augmented generation (RAG), threat hunting, logging, and beyond.

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Start and scale quickly with Elastic Cloud Serverless on Azure

  • Start instantly; no ops, no upgrades: Free yourself from the administration burden — no upgrades, managing infrastructure, capacity planning, and scaling. It’s all handled automatically on your behalf.

  • Access the best of AI and search: Always use the latest features from vector search, Elastic Agent Builder, and machine learning (ML) to generative AI capabilities to innovate and deliver relevant results quicker. Grow using affordable object storage to query data for the long term.

  • Load spikes? No problem: Handle massive data volumes and complex queries with dynamic auto-scale that adjusts in real time and with changes in demand, minimizing latency and ensuring the fastest response.

  • Built for reliability: With a 99.95% monthly uptime service level agreement (SLA), Elastic Cloud Serverless ensures a high standard of service availability, so you can focus on your applications with confidence.

  • Flexible usage-based pricing model: Elastic Cloud Serverless offers a usage-based pricing model that scales with your needs. You only pay for what you use, whether it’s for data ingested and retained in Elastic Security and Observability products or for compute resources in Elasticsearch.

Getting started with Elastic Cloud Serverless on Azure

To try Elastic Cloud Serverless, sign up or log in to the Elastic Cloud console and create a serverless project.

For Elasticsearch, Elastic Observability, or Elastic Security projects, select Azure as the cloud provider and then choose from any one of the following regions. 

  • East US 2 (Virginia), azure-eastus2

  • Southeast Asia (Singapore), azure-southeastasia

  • Spain Central (Spain), azure-spaincentral

  • Germany West Central (Frankfurt), azure-germanywestcentral

  • East US (Virginia), azure-eastus

  • North Europe (Ireland), azure-northeurope

  • Australia East (New South Wales), azure-australiaeast

  • West US (Washington), azure-westus2

Click Create project, and your Elastic Cloud Serverless project will be provisioned.

Visit our documentation to learn more.

What’s next?

We continue to expand Elastic Cloud Serverless to additional Azure regions and introduce new features that further enhance performance and usability. Stay tuned for exciting updates as we bring the full power of Elastic’s solutions to Azure users.

The future of search, security, and observability is here without compromise on speed, scale, or cost. Experience Elastic Cloud Serverless and Search AI Lake to unlock new opportunities with your data. Learn more about the possibilities of serverless or start your free trial now on Microsoft Marketplace.

The release and timing of any features or functionality described in this post remain at Elastic's sole discretion. Any features or functionality not currently available may not be delivered on time or at all.

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