# Installing cloud-aws

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-cloud-aws/39372>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 16, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-cloud-aws/39372 "2016-01-16T08:09:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![joeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@joeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joeb)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-cloud-aws/39372/1 "2016-01-16T08:09:22Z")

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I'm trying to install cloud-aws as an elasticsearch plugin on an ec2 instance using "sudo bin/plugin install cloud-aws", and I am getting a null github url. I think this is because of some ec2 restrictions. Here is the plugin URL: [https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/2.0/plugins/cloud-aws](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/tree/2.0/plugins/cloud-aws).

Is there any other syntax for installing this plugin? The following command was working fine for me, but it is for the older version of the plugin: "bin/plugin install elasticsearch/elasticsearch-cloud-aws/2.7.1".

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-cloud-aws/39372/2 "2016-01-16T09:08:48Z")

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Which elasticsearch version?

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**Author:** ![joeb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f19dbf/32.png) [@joeb](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/joeb)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-cloud-aws/39372/3 "2016-01-16T18:40:21Z")

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I was using es 1.7.0. It looks like it works when I update to es 2.1.1.

Is there a specific version of cloud-aws I can specify when I am doing this install? I'm running "sudo bin/plugin install cloud-aws" as part of an automated setup script, and I wonder if it might break in the future if cloud-aws is updated while the other things in the script aren't updated.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-cloud-aws/39372/4 "2016-01-16T20:10:13Z")

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From 2.0, we release a cloud-aws version for each elasticsearch version.  
You must update it every time you update elasticsearch.

The version number is not needed as it's the same version as elasticsearch.

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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, 11:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/installing-cloud-aws/39372/5 "2017-07-05T23:23:49Z")

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