Manage Elastic Cloud with ease
Elastic Cloud is the simplest way to start and scale Search, Observability, and Security.
Introduction to Elastic Cloud
Elastic Cloud offers the flexibility to choose between hosted and serverless options.
Our shared responsibility
Let's explore the key responsibilities of Elastic and you for both Elastic Cloud Hosted and Elastic Cloud Serverless.
Overview
Hosted
Serverless
Data
- Ingestion
- Classification
- Hygiene
Customer's responsibilities
Customer's responsibilities
Security
- Access controls and auditing
- Direct Connect / Express
- IP filters and PrivateLink
Customer's responsibilities
Customer's responsibilities
Operations
- Monitoring and alerting for clusters, indices, and shard health
- Remediating cluster issues
- Backup restoration
- Plugin configuration
- Deployment sizing
Customer's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Orchestration
- Container configuration and management
- User specified Elastic Stack configurations
- User specified deployment size and capacity
- Periodic data backups
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Platform and networking
- Install, harden, and configure Elastic software components
- Component-to-component connectivity and isolation
- Encryption at rest and in transit
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Infrastructure
- Provisioning cloud resources (e.g., VMs, volumes, networks) on Elastic Cloud regions and availability zones
- Applying OS updates and security patches
- Ensuring capacity and instance availability
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Data
- Ingestion
- Classification
- Hygiene
Security
- Access controls and auditing
- Direct Connect / Express
- IP filters and PrivateLink
Operations
- Monitoring and alerting for clusters, indices, and shard health
- Remediating cluster issues
- Backup restoration
- Plugin configuration
- Deployment sizing
Orchestration
- Container configuration and management
- User specified Elastic Stack configurations
- User specified deployment size and capacity
- Periodic data backups
Platform and networking
- Install, harden, and configure Elastic software components
- Component-to-component connectivity and isolation
- Encryption at rest and in transit
Infrastructure
- Provisioning cloud resources (e.g., VMs, volumes, networks) on Elastic Cloud regions and availability zones
- Applying OS updates and security patches
- Ensuring capacity and instance availability
Hosted
Serverless
Customer's responsibilities
Customer's responsibilities
Customer's responsibilities
Customer's responsibilities
Customer's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Elastic's responsibilities
Customer responsibilities (examples)
Security
Security
- Securing communications between Elastic Cloud and other systems, such as applications, databases, and other cloud services
- Implementing configurations that adhere to security best practices
- Implementing role-based access control and configuring SAML SSO
Operations (Elastic Cloud Hosted)
Operations (Elastic Cloud Hosted)
- Giving careful consideration to the sizing requirements of your deployment
- Deciding when and how you want to restore snapshots
- Ensuring the health of your configurations, plugins, indices, and shards
- Enabling out-of-the-box monitoring and alerting capabilities to ensure your deployment remains healthy
Elastic responsibilities (examples)
Operations (Elastic Cloud Serverless only)
Operations (Elastic Cloud Serverless only)
- Giving careful consideration to the sizing requirements of your deployment
- Deciding when and how you want to restore snapshots
- Ensuring the health of your configurations, plugins, indices, and shards
- Enabling out-of-the-box monitoring and alerting capabilities to ensure your deployment remains healthy
Orchestration
Orchestration
- Automatically applying your configuration changes and plugins
- Taking periodic snapshots (you set the cadence, we do the work)
Platform and networking
Platform and networking
- Encrypting your deployment or project data and snapshots and managing your keys
- Encrypting communications between components such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, and APM
- Ensuring connectivity between components
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
- Building out infrastructure in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure regions and availability zones
- Managing availability, so you won't see insufficient capacity or stock out errors when you create a deployment or project
- Applying software updates and security patches to your underlying infrastructure
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