Licenses and subscriptions
Elastic Cloud Serverless projects are autoscaled environments, fully managed by Elastic and available on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Serverless interfaces and procedures might differ from classic Elastic Stack deployments. Elastic Cloud Hosted lets you manage and configure one or more deployments of the versioned Elastic Stack, hosted on Elastic Cloud. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes extends Kubernetes orchestration capabilities to allow you to deploy and manage components of the Elastic Stack. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. Elastic Cloud Enterprise is a self-managed orchestration platform for deploying and managing the Elastic Stack at scale. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes. Self-managed deployments are Elastic Stack deployments managed without the assistance of an orchestrator. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. This documentation corresponds to the latest patch available for each minor version. If you're not using the latest patch, check the release notes for changes.
Serverless
Generally available
ECH
Generally available
ECK
Generally available
ECE
Generally available
Self-managed
Generally available
Your Elastic license or subscription determines which features are available and what level of support you receive.
Depending on your deployment type, licenses and subscriptions are applied at different levels:
- Elastic Cloud, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, and Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes: Licenses and subscriptions are controlled at the orchestrator or organization level, and apply to all related deployments.
- Self-managed Elasticsearch: Licenses are controlled at the cluster level, and apply only to a single cluster.
In Elastic Cloud Serverless, your organization's Elastic Cloud subscription level controls only the support level you receive. Project features are controlled by each project's feature tier and add-ons.
For a comprehensive comparison of the available subscription levels, see Elastic subscriptions.
Use the topics in this section to manage your license or start a trial:
- Elastic Cloud: Applies to both Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments and Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in your Cloud organization
- Elastic Cloud Enterprise
- Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
- Self-managed cluster
Explore these resources for details on subscriptions and features: