# ElasticSearch on Amazon S3
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [May 8, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881 "2013-05-08T17:27:17Z")
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Franks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Justin_Franks)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2013, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881/1 "2013-05-08T17:27:17Z")
Has anyone ever run ElasticSearch on S3? I know you can run an http server
on S3. Was curious about running ES on S3...
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### Author:  [@karmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/karmi)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2013, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881/2 "2013-05-09T09:27:11Z")
You can't, in fact, run an HTTP server on Amazon S3 -- you can only use S3
_as_ a HTTP server serving static assets (HTML pages, images, CSS, etc.)
You can run Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2, see the specific tutorials
here: [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/)
and [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/)
Karel
On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:27:17 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> Has anyone ever run Elasticsearch on S3? I know you can run an http server
> on S3. Was curious about running ES on S3...
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Franks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Justin_Franks)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2013, 11:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881/3 "2013-05-09T11:39:01Z")
Karel, thanks for clarifying my statement. Indeed, how you phrased it is
much more accurate and will not confuse people as the way I explained it.
Thanks for the links!!
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Karel Minařík [karel.minarik@gmail.com](mailto:karel.minarik@gmail.com)wrote:
> You can't, in fact, run an HTTP server on Amazon S3 -- you can only use S3
> _as_ a HTTP server serving static assets (HTML pages, images, CSS, etc.)
>
> You can run Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2, see the specific tutorials here:
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/) and
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/)
>
> Karel
>
> On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:27:17 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ever run Elasticsearch on S3? I know you can run an http
> > server on S3. Was curious about running ES on S3...
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### Author:  [@Christoph\_Evers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christoph_Evers)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881/4 "2013-05-09T16:13:52Z")
You can have an S3 backed key-value store based on Elasticsearch though:
> **[GitHub - not-kennethreitz/elephant: A persistent, full-text searchable...](https://github.com/not-kennethreitz/elephant#readme)**
>
> A persistent, full-text searchable key-value store. Powered by Flask, ElasticSearch, S3, and good intentions. - GitHub - not-kennethreitz/elephant: A persistent, full-text searchable key-value stor...
On Thursday, May 9, 2013 1:39:01 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> Karel, thanks for clarifying my statement. Indeed, how you phrased it is
> much more accurate and will not confuse people as the way I explained it.
> Thanks for the links!!
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Karel Minařík \<[karel....@gmail.com](mailto:karel....@gmail.com)\
>
> > wrote:
>
> > You can't, in fact, run an HTTP server on Amazon S3 -- you can only use
> > S3 _as_ a HTTP server serving static assets (HTML pages, images, CSS, etc.)
> >
> > You can run Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2, see the specific tutorials here:
> > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/) and
> > [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/)
> >
> > Karel
> >
> > On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:27:17 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> >
> > > Has anyone ever run Elasticsearch on S3? I know you can run an http
> > > server on S3. Was curious about running ES on S3...
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Franks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Justin_Franks)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881/5 "2013-05-09T22:54:25Z")
@Christoph: So basically the data lives in S3 and the Elasticsearch DB
lives on an EC2 host(s)? What lives where?
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Christoph Evers
[christoph@365analytics.com](mailto:christoph@365analytics.com)wrote:
> You can have an S3 backed key-value store based on Elasticsearch though:
> [GitHub - not-kennethreitz/elephant: A persistent, full-text searchable key-value store. Powered by Flask, ElasticSearch, S3, and good intentions.](https://github.com/kennethreitz/elephant#readme)
>
> On Thursday, May 9, 2013 1:39:01 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
>
> > Karel, thanks for clarifying my statement. Indeed, how you phrased it is
> > much more accurate and will not confuse people as the way I explained it.
> > Thanks for the links!!
> >
> > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Karel Minařík [karel....@gmail.com](mailto:karel....@gmail.com)wrote:
> >
> > > You can't, in fact, run an HTTP server on Amazon S3 -- you can only use
> > > S3 _as_ a HTTP server serving static assets (HTML pages, images, CSS, etc.)
> > >
> > > You can run Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2, see the specific tutorials
> > > here: [http://www](http://www).\*\*[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://elasticsearch.org/tutorials/**elasticsearch-on-ec2/)[http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/)and
> > > [http://www.elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch). **org/tutorials/deploying-**
> > > elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/[http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/)
> > >
> > > Karel
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:27:17 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> > >
> > > > Has anyone ever run Elasticsearch on S3? I know you can run an http
> > > > server on S3. Was curious about running ES on S3...
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### Author:  [@Christoph\_Evers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christoph_Evers)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2013, 8:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881/6 "2013-05-10T08:55:14Z")
I think that it's the goal indeed but I have to admit that I eventually
didn't try it...
I brought it as an input related (it seems) to what you wanted. I'll try to
have a check next week if you want, though.
On Friday, May 10, 2013 12:54:25 AM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> @Christoph: So basically the data lives in S3 and the Elasticsearch DB
> lives on an EC2 host(s)? What lives where?
>
> On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Christoph Evers \<[chri...@365analytics.com](mailto:chri...@365analytics.com)\
>
> > wrote:
>
> > You can have an S3 backed key-value store based on Elasticsearch though:
> > [GitHub - not-kennethreitz/elephant: A persistent, full-text searchable key-value store. Powered by Flask, ElasticSearch, S3, and good intentions.](https://github.com/kennethreitz/elephant#readme)
> >
> > On Thursday, May 9, 2013 1:39:01 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> >
> > > Karel, thanks for clarifying my statement. Indeed, how you phrased it is
> > > much more accurate and will not confuse people as the way I explained it.
> > > Thanks for the links!!
> > >
> > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Karel Minařík [karel....@gmail.com](mailto:karel....@gmail.com)wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can't, in fact, run an HTTP server on Amazon S3 -- you can only
> > > > use S3 _as_ a HTTP server serving static assets (HTML pages, images, CSS,
> > > > etc.)
> > > >
> > > > You can run Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2, see the specific tutorials
> > > > here: [http://www](http://www).\*\*[Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://elasticsearch.org/tutorials/**elasticsearch-on-ec2/)[http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/)and
> > > > [http://www.elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch). **org/tutorials/deploying-**
> > > > elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/[http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/)
> > > >
> > > > Karel
> > > >
> > > > On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:27:17 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Has anyone ever run Elasticsearch on S3? I know you can run an http
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Franks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Justin_Franks)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2013, 10:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881/7 "2013-05-11T10:38:06Z")
Yes, please. I am highly interested in what you find out.
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Christoph Evers \<[christoph@365analytics.com](mailto:christoph@365analytics.com)
> wrote:
> I think that it's the goal indeed but I have to admit that I eventually
> didn't try it...
> I brought it as an input related (it seems) to what you wanted. I'll try
> to have a check next week if you want, though.
>
> On Friday, May 10, 2013 12:54:25 AM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
>
> > @Christoph: So basically the data lives in S3 and the Elasticsearch DB
> > lives on an EC2 host(s)? What lives where?
> >
> > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Christoph Evers \<[chri...@365analytics.com](mailto:chri...@365analytics.com)
> >
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > You can have an S3 backed key-value store based on Elasticsearch though:
> > > [https://github.com/\*\*kennethreitz/elephant#readme](https://github.com/**kennethreitz/elephant#readme)[https://github.com/kennethreitz/elephant#readme](https://github.com/kennethreitz/elephant#readme)
> > >
> > > On Thursday, May 9, 2013 1:39:01 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> > >
> > > > Karel, thanks for clarifying my statement. Indeed, how you phrased it
> > > > is much more accurate and will not confuse people as the way I explained
> > > > it. Thanks for the links!!
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Karel Minařík [karel....@gmail.com](mailto:karel....@gmail.com)wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > You can't, in fact, run an HTTP server on Amazon S3 -- you can only
> > > > > use S3 _as_ a HTTP server serving static assets (HTML pages, images, CSS,
> > > > > etc.)
> > > > >
> > > > > You can run Elasticsearch on Amazon EC2, see the specific tutorials
> > > > > here: [http://www](http://www). **elasticsearch**.org/tutorials/ **elasticsearch-**
> > > > > on-ec2/ [http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/elasticsearch-on-ec2/)and
> > > > > [http://www.elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch). **o** rg/tutorials/deploying- **elastic**
> > > > > search-with-chef-solo/[http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/](http://www.elasticsearch.org/tutorials/deploying-elasticsearch-with-chef-solo/)
> > > > >
> > > > > Karel
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wednesday, May 8, 2013 7:27:17 PM UTC+2, Justin Franks wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Has anyone ever run Elasticsearch on S3? I know you can run an http
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#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-on-amazon-s3/11881/8 "2017-07-06T02:37:05Z")