# Can Elastic App search be enabled in a non Enterpise environment

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-app-search-be-enabled-in-a-non-enterpise-environment/243853>\
**Category:** Elastic Search\
**Tags:** elastic-app-search\
**Created:** [August 5, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-app-search-be-enabled-in-a-non-enterpise-environment/243853 "2020-08-05T10:51:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![bigmog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@bigmog](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/bigmog)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2020, 10:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-app-search-be-enabled-in-a-non-enterpise-environment/243853/1 "2020-08-05T10:51:40Z")

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Is it possible to enable the Elastic App Search functionality in a regular Elastic Search deployment rather than using an Elastic Enterprise Search deployment? Or do I have to move all my indices to an Elastic Enterprise Search deployment. I would rather be able to enable enable Enterprise Search in my existing deployments if possible

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**Author:** ![nickchow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nickchow/32/42547_2.png) [@nickchow](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickchow)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-app-search-be-enabled-in-a-non-enterpise-environment/243853/2 "2020-08-10T18:22:38Z")

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Hi Steve,

Thanks for the question!

I assume you're referring to the Elastic Cloud deployment template (please correct me if I'm wrong!): we use the same Elasticsearch instances that you would see in the highCPU template, because we found those work best with App Search. We're looking into having App Search (as in Enterprise Search instances) available in different deployment templates, stay tuned. But for now, to stay in Elastic Cloud, you will have to move your indices to an Enterprise Search templated deployment.

There's the [App Search Logstash plugin](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-outputs-elastic_app_search.html) which can help there.

It's worth noting that App Search is always backed by a "regular" Elasticsearch deployment. And, of course, with the self-managed binary, you can have App Search backed by an existing Elasticsearch deployment. App Search will create its own indices, so please resource accordingly!

Thanks,  
Nick

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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:** [September 7, 2020, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/can-elastic-app-search-be-enabled-in-a-non-enterpise-environment/243853/3 "2020-09-07T18:22:46Z")

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