# API Key, IP Filtering on ECE

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-key-ip-filtering-on-ece/207660>\
**Category:** Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [November 13, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-key-ip-filtering-on-ece/207660 "2019-11-13T08:57:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Hitoshi\_Fujita](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hitoshi_fujita/32/55197_2.png) [@Hitoshi\_Fujita](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hitoshi_Fujita)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-key-ip-filtering-on-ece/207660/1 "2019-11-13T08:57:18Z")

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Hi,

I'm considering to use Elasticsearch Cloud in AWS. So I have questions about security.

- When I access to Elasticsearch Cloud, can I use api key?
- Can I use IP Filtering?

Those feature are provided by x-pack, but I do not know all feature of x-pack is enable on Elasticsearch Cloud.

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Piggott](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/alex_piggott/32/11053_2.png) [@Alex\_Piggott](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Piggott)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2019, 2:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-key-ip-filtering-on-ece/207660/2 "2019-11-13T14:51:32Z")

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We are currently fairly far into a beta programme supporting API keys - so you may be able to enroll in that (in fact everyone using IP filtering is enrolled I believe)

The "x-pack" IP filtering is not supported but we are fairly far into a beta programme supporting a Cloud variant of this (currently there's no UI so we're supplying people with API key access and API documentation

The process for finding out more than this very quick summary would be either to contact to sign up for an account [https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch/service](https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch/service) and then contact support from the help form

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**Author:** ![Hitoshi\_Fujita](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/hitoshi_fujita/32/55197_2.png) [@Hitoshi\_Fujita](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Hitoshi_Fujita)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-key-ip-filtering-on-ece/207660/3 "2019-11-14T00:57:16Z")

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Thank you for replying.

I understood that we can use API key and IP filtering in a beta program.  
I'll contact support team, thank you

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2019, 12:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/api-key-ip-filtering-on-ece/207660/4 "2019-11-28T00:57:19Z")

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