# Can a Custom Realm be installed in Elastic Cloud?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-a-custom-realm-be-installed-in-elastic-cloud/270893>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** elastic-stack-security\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-a-custom-realm-be-installed-in-elastic-cloud/270893 "2021-04-21T18:17:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![pablomartinez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e7dd6/32.png) [@pablomartinez](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/pablomartinez)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 6:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-a-custom-realm-be-installed-in-elastic-cloud/270893/1 "2021-04-21T18:17:46Z")

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Just as the title says: Can a Custom Realm be installed in Elastic Cloud?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 10:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-a-custom-realm-be-installed-in-elastic-cloud/270893/2 "2021-04-21T22:33:38Z")

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Welcome to our community! 😃

These are the supported Security configurations in Elastic Cloud - [Securing your deployment | Elasticsearch Service Documentation | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-security.html)

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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 2:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-a-custom-realm-be-installed-in-elastic-cloud/270893/3 "2021-04-22T02:22:59Z")

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See [Elastic Cloud Feature Matrix | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions/cloud)

Under `Elastic Stack security` there is a row for

> Custom authentication and authorization realms

Technically a custom realm is a special Elasticsearch plugin, so you should read through the documentation about [loading plugins](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud/current/ec-adding-plugins.html) in the Elastic Cloud Elasticsearch Service

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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:** [May 20, 2021, 2:23am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-a-custom-realm-be-installed-in-elastic-cloud/270893/4 "2021-05-20T02:23:12Z")

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