# New to ELK Stack on AWS?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elk-stack-on-aws/172164
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 13, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elk-stack-on-aws/172164 "2019-03-13T14:11:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@lar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lar)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2019, 2:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elk-stack-on-aws/172164/1 "2019-03-13T14:11:45Z")
I am using ELK stack on AWS (not the AWS Manages Service ES), like Installing ELK stack on EC2 to collect all infrastructure logs and application logs. I have few questions:
1 - What is being used for Data shipping from Instances/Applications to Logstash ?
2 - How many AZ subnets/Security groups are there ?
3 - How many AZs are used ?
4 - Is a ELB used, if Yes betwwen which ELK stack instances.
5 - How are the infrastructure logs collected ?
6 - How is ELK stack monitored ?
7 - Where are the logs stored ?
8 - What is used with Curotor to clean up old indexes ?
9 - What is user for Kibana Auth. ? built in X-Pack ?
10 - How is cloudwatch/cloudtrail/S3/SNS are used in ELK stack ?
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### Author:  [@lar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lar)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 4:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elk-stack-on-aws/172164/2 "2019-03-22T16:30:30Z")
Any one
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elk-stack-on-aws/172164/3 "2019-03-22T17:20:49Z")
Going to try to answer but I don't think I can answer everything.
> 1 - What is being used for Data shipping from Instances/Applications to Logstash ?
I'd look at filebeat.
> 2 - How many AZ subnets/Security groups are there ?
No idea.
> 3 - How many AZs are used ?
No idea.
> 4 - Is a ELB used, if Yes betwwen which ELK stack instances.
No idea.
> 5 - How are the infrastructure logs collected ?
Filebeat?
> 6 - How is ELK stack monitored ?
Each application (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana) can send its monitoring data to a ElasticStack monitoring cluster which can be the same you deployed.
> 7 - Where are the logs stored ?
Locally on disk.
> 8 - What is used with Curotor to clean up old indexes ?
Not sure I understand the question.
> 9 - What is user for Kibana Auth. ? built in X-Pack ?
You need to set it yourself. Security documentation says it all.
> 10 - How is cloudwatch/cloudtrail/S3/SNS are used in ELK stack ?
No idea.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2019, 5:20pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/new-to-elk-stack-on-aws/172164/4 "2019-04-19T17:20:56Z")
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