# Filebeat with AWS ES IAM Role authentication ...?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-with-aws-es-iam-role-authentication/206061
**Category:** Beats
**Tags:** filebeat
**Created:** [October 31, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-with-aws-es-iam-role-authentication/206061 "2019-10-31T14:39:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@john\_eapen](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/john_eapen)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2019, 2:39pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-with-aws-es-iam-role-authentication/206061/1 "2019-10-31T14:39:33Z")
I am using filebeat-7.4.1 docker on AWS with AWS ES.
It is my understanding that Filebeat doesn't support IAM authentication when used with AWS Elasticsearch service ?
Is there any plan to support this in near future or any workaround ?
Thanks
John
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### Author:  [@Christian\_Dahlqvist](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Christian_Dahlqvist)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-with-aws-es-iam-role-authentication/206061/2 "2019-10-31T18:36:44Z")
A workaround is to send the data through Logstash and use the amazon\_es output. Following a quick search of the beats repo it seems [it is likely not on the road map](https://github.com/elastic/beats/issues/5467).
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/filebeat-with-aws-es-iam-role-authentication/206061/3 "2019-11-28T18:36:55Z")
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