Accessing the Elastic Cloud cluster with curl

Elasticsearch is fundamentally accessed via a REST API. Elastic Cloud is no different and is actually an identical API. We just need to be able to know how to construct the URL properly to connect. Let's look at that.

How to do it

We proceed with the recipe as follows:

1. When you signed up for Elastic Cloud, you were given various endpoints and variables, such as username and password. The URL was similar to the following:

https://<account-id>.us-west-2.aws.found.io:9243

Depending on the cloud and region, the rest of the domain name, as well as the port, may differ.

2. We'll use a slight variant of the following URL to communicate and authenticate with Elastic...