# How To Output to Amazon Elasticsearch Service

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-output-to-amazon-elasticsearch-service/101247>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [September 20, 2017, 11:24pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-output-to-amazon-elasticsearch-service/101247 "2017-09-20T23:24:34Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 21, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-output-to-amazon-elasticsearch-service/101247/5 "2017-09-21T23:14:58Z")

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> [@warkolm](#):
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> Elastic Cloud

Yes @warkolm, the Elastic Cloud is fantastic! I have some AWS credit, though, so I'm doing it the hard way. 🙂

I get the impression it might be easier just to stand up my own Elasticsearch server in the same VPC as the LogStash server.

Thoughts?

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