Elastic Cloud is the scalable cloud offering by the company that built Elasticsearch. Elasticsearch and Kibana are offered as a service. Your cluster is hosted on Amazon AWS and is completely managed by Elastic Cloud. You can create a new cluster across multiple data centers with the click of a button. Once you create a cluster, depending on the application needs, you can scale up or down very easily. The monitoring of clusters is available via Kibana monitoring. X-Pack is automatically included for every cluster running on Elastic Cloud.
Elastic offers a 14-day trial to new customers to try the service. You can sign up for a trial by going to https://cloud.elastic.co
The advantages of Elastic Cloud are as follows:
- Monitored and managed by Elastic - If a node or the cluster goes down, its taken care by the Elastic team. There is no need of a dedicated operations...
