# Elastic Search with Encrypted EBS volume

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-with-encrypted-ebs-volume/182342>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 23, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-with-encrypted-ebs-volume/182342 "2019-05-23T04:36:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mathew\_Paret](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mathew_paret/32/46676_2.png) [@Mathew\_Paret](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mathew_Paret)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 4:36am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-with-encrypted-ebs-volume/182342/1 "2019-05-23T04:36:42Z")

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If I create a new Encrypted EBS volume to my EC2 instance and get Elasticsearch to store and retrieve data from this new encrypted volume, do we need to do any configuration in Elastic Search to enable it to read or write to the encrypted volume? - I.E. Will elastic search need to handle the encryption/decryption?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-with-encrypted-ebs-volume/182342/2 "2019-05-23T05:02:36Z")

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My guess is that only the machine (Vm) needs to be aware of it.

Note that we don't really recommend using EBS drives as they can be much slower than local disks.

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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:** [June 20, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-with-encrypted-ebs-volume/182342/3 "2019-06-20T05:02:59Z")

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