# Does Cloud Workload Protection requires license?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cloud-workload-protection-requires-license/320799>\
**Category:** Elastic Security\
**Created:** [December 8, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cloud-workload-protection-requires-license/320799 "2022-12-08T14:19:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![German\_Bravo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/german_bravo/32/102396_2.png) [@German\_Bravo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/German_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cloud-workload-protection-requires-license/320799/1 "2022-12-08T14:19:21Z")

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Hello, I just updated to v8.x from 7.x, and Im curious about Cloud Workload Protection.

I saw that it is necessary to have a license for CIS benchmarking Kubernetes (findings section in Elastic Security), but for protecting Kubernetes workloads (process, file, network level with detection rules) like pods, containers, is it necessary a paid license? Because Im concerned that to use the Session View you have to pay a minimum license, but is it necessary for kuberentes workloads?

Thanks and Greetings.

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**Author:** ![Venkata\_Raja](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/venkata_raja/32/114264_2.png) [@Venkata\_Raja](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Venkata_Raja)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 7:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cloud-workload-protection-requires-license/320799/2 "2022-12-09T07:02:21Z")

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Hi German\_Bravo,

Welcome to community!  
AFAIK we can collect process,file,network data with basic license by installing Elastic endpoint and can prevent from malware also with basic license.

For more details.

> **[Subscriptions | Elastic Stack Products & Support | Elastic](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions)**
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> See subscription levels, pricing, and tiered features for on-prem deployments of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch Kibana, Beats, and Logstash), Elastic Cloud, and Elastic Cloud Enterprise.

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**Author:** ![German\_Bravo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/german_bravo/32/102396_2.png) [@German\_Bravo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/German_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 1:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cloud-workload-protection-requires-license/320799/3 "2022-12-09T13:03:10Z")

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Hi @Venkata_Raja, thanks for your response, but is it possible in a Kubernetes environment like Amazon EKS?

In Amazon EKS, I can't install Elastic Agent as a Linux service directly, because we dont have an administrative and interactive console access to the cluster nodes, we can only deploy k8s resources (configmas, operators, pods, ...)

How can we protect with Elastic Security from Elastic Agent a containarized environment (cloud workloads as pods, containers) like Amazon EKS with a Free License?

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**Author:** ![German\_Bravo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/german_bravo/32/102396_2.png) [@German\_Bravo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/German_Bravo)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2022, 6:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cloud-workload-protection-requires-license/320799/4 "2022-12-12T18:54:16Z")

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Any help on this case?

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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:** [January 9, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/does-cloud-workload-protection-requires-license/320799/5 "2023-01-09T18:55:15Z")

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