# How to sign kibana requests to elasticsearch with AWS Credentials

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sign-kibana-requests-to-elasticsearch-with-aws-credentials/220108
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [February 20, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sign-kibana-requests-to-elasticsearch-with-aws-credentials/220108 "2020-02-20T07:15:55Z")
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### Author: ![wiouser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wiouser/32/45741_2.png) [@wiouser](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/wiouser)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2020, 7:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sign-kibana-requests-to-elasticsearch-with-aws-credentials/220108/1 "2020-02-20T07:15:56Z")

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Hi,

I am trying to install an external kibana to talk to AWS Elasticsearch.  
Is there a way to sign the HTTP requests using the aws sdk for node.

I looked at an example here.  
[https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/es-request-signing.html](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/latest/developerguide/es-request-signing.html)

How to use this for all requests sent from Kibana to Elasticsearch?

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### Author: ![rashmi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rashmi/32/16391_2.png) [@rashmi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/rashmi)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2020, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sign-kibana-requests-to-elasticsearch-with-aws-credentials/220108/2 "2020-03-13T02:08:51Z")

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> [@wiouser](#):
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> external kibana to talk to AWS Elasticsearch

If Kibana is running locally it can not access to localhost:9200. You need to change that to the public address of your elasticsearch instance I guess.  
BTW did you look at [https://www.elastic.co/cloud](https://www.elastic.co/cloud) and [https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N6YCISK](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B01N6YCISK) ?

Cloud by elastic is one way to have access to all features, all managed by us. Think about what is there yet like Security, Monitoring, Reporting, SQL, Canvas, APM, Logs UI, Infra UI and what is coming next 🙂 ...

Thanks  
Rashmi

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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: [April 10, 2020, 2:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-sign-kibana-requests-to-elasticsearch-with-aws-credentials/220108/3 "2020-04-10T02:09:03Z")

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