# Having two discovery methods for the same cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-two-discovery-methods-for-the-same-cluster/33552>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 2, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-two-discovery-methods-for-the-same-cluster/33552 "2015-11-02T18:25:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JeremyinNC](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/jeremyinnc/32/44868_2.png) [@JeremyinNC](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/JeremyinNC)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2015, 6:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-two-discovery-methods-for-the-same-cluster/33552/1 "2015-11-02T18:25:16Z")

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We're moving our ES clusters from one AWS account to another. Ideally to move them we'd just add the new nodes to the old cluster, move the shards off the old cluster & shutdown the old instances.

The problem is that we're using the ec2 plugin which does not "know" about the systems on separate accounts. Is there a way we can mix the two kinds of discovery?

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2015, 6:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-two-discovery-methods-for-the-same-cluster/33552/2 "2015-11-03T06:26:31Z")

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If you don't disable the other methods explicitly, you can use multiple yes.

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/having-two-discovery-methods-for-the-same-cluster/33552/3 "2017-07-05T23:41:05Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:41pm UTC