# Elastic Cloud vs AWS ELK as a service

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-vs-aws-elk-as-a-service/268192>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 24, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-vs-aws-elk-as-a-service/268192 "2021-03-24T10:28:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![evgeniy777](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/evgeniy777/32/85978_2.png) [@evgeniy777](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/evgeniy777)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-vs-aws-elk-as-a-service/268192/1 "2021-03-24T10:28:39Z")

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Hi all !

Can you please explain what the cons and pros of using both solutions ?

> **[The ELK stack](https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/the-elk-stack/)**
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> ELK is the popular, open-source framework for log analytics. Try Amazon Elasticsearch Service to deploy and manage ELK without any operational overhead.

VS  
[https://cloud.elastic.co/](https://cloud.elastic.co/)

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/christian_dahlqvist/32/4617_2.png) [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)\
**Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 10:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-vs-aws-elk-as-a-service/268192/2 "2021-03-24T10:46:26Z")

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I think [this page](https://www.elastic.co/aws-elasticsearch-service) is what you are looking for. It is also worth noting that [Elastic recently have changed their licensing](https://www.elastic.co/blog/license-change-clarification) to prevent AWS from offering an Elasticsearch based service for new versions, so it currently seem like [AWS will fork Elasticsearch and Kibana](https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/faq.html) and use this in their service, which I suspect might get renamed. Time will tell...

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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:** [April 21, 2021, 10:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-cloud-vs-aws-elk-as-a-service/268192/3 "2021-04-21T10:47:19Z")

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