# Elastic Cloud

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/observability/elastic-cloud/

Managed Elasticsearch, Kibana and Elastic Observability, hosted or serverless across AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.

## Who it suits

Teams that need full-text search and observability on the same underlying engine, or that want the option to self-host later — Elastic's dual identity as a search platform and an observability platform is the actual differentiator against single-purpose competitors.

Consider something else if The need is narrowly error tracking or APM — a purpose-built tool is usually simpler to operate than standing up an Elasticsearch cluster for one workload, and Elastic Cloud's per-resource pricing doesn't publish a flat entry price the way single-purpose competitors do.

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No ([source](https://www.elastic.co/pricing), read 2026-09-11)
- Pricing model: Hosted: resource-based pricing, pay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid. Serverless: usage-based pricing, pay-as-you-go monthly or prepaid. ([source](https://www.elastic.co/pricing), read 2026-09-11)

### Infrastructure

- Regions: Hosted: 60 regions across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud (also Alibaba Cloud and FedRAMP). Serverless: generally available on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. ([source](https://www.elastic.co/pricing), read 2026-09-11)

### Observability

- Self-hostable: Supported ([source](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions), read 2026-09-11)

### Vector

- Hybrid search (vector + keyword): Supported — combines vector similarity scores with BM25F text-relevance scores in a single hybrid query. ([source](https://www.elastic.co/what-is/vector-search), read 2026-09-11)
- Metadata filtering: Supported — vector search results can be filtered by metadata while preserving approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search speed. ([source](https://www.elastic.co/what-is/vector-search), read 2026-09-11)

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