Ingestion options
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. The Elastic Stack includes Elastic's core products such as Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats. Availability This functionality is generally available and ready for production usage. Unless stated otherwise on the page, this functionality is available when your Elastic Stack is deployed on Elastic Cloud Hosted, Elastic Cloud Enterprise, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, and self-managed environments. 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
Stack
Generally available
You have a number of options for ingesting data with AWS. The following table helps you identify which option best fits your needs:
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| pros | Managed service, auto-scale | Auto-scale, built-in support for SQS | Supports all integrations, manages multiple agents using Fleet | Large configuration options |
| cons | Few configuration options | Partial integrations support | Not a managed service, no auto-scale | Not a managed service, no auto-scale |
The high-level architecture is shown below.
