# Big shared elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-shared-elasticsearch/4649>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 17, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-shared-elasticsearch/4649 "2011-06-17T13:01:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Paul\_Loy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ad7895/32.png) [@Paul\_Loy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Paul_Loy)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2011, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-shared-elasticsearch/4649/1 "2011-06-17T13:01:17Z")

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Hi Shay,

I was wondering what your opinion may be on whether I should be able to  
create Elastic Search as a Service (ESaaS).

That is, have a bunch of EC2 instances all clustered up, and then add an  
arbitrary number of indices (and shards / replicas) for customers. Then I  
could just add instances when load was high, and remove them when it was  
lower.

Can you perceive of any issues in that?

Thanks,

Paul.

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Paul Loy  
[paul@keteracel.com](mailto:paul@keteracel.com)  
[http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy](http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulloy)

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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:** [July 6, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/big-shared-elasticsearch/4649/2 "2017-07-06T04:03:14Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 4:03am UTC