Private connection to elastic cloud deployment

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Hi!

We are evlauting elastic cloud but only if this is possible : set up private connectivity between onprem (or laptop) to elastic cloud deployment . From docs, I see private connection is posisble just with private link (works only with AWS/GCP/Azure) but how to establish private connection from laptop to elastic cloud deployment?

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What is the use case? It does not make much sense to limit a connection to a single laptop.

You can have private link with only the major clouds, but you can also have IP filtering, to limit the access to your deployments to specific IP Address range.

If you are on-prem you can create a VPN between your infrastructure and one of those clouds and then use a private link.

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Hi @searchwithme

I agree with @leandrojmp help us understand what you're actually trying to accomplish.

The way companies do this is let's use AWS as an example

They tie their corporate Network to AWS using AWS direct connect.

You can then use that to route through a private link to an elastic cloud hosted cluster.

This is not trivial.

What Leandro suggested of just using a simple IP filter is probably much more direct and simple

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To properly evaluate, you need ways to get actual data in, and connect clients, make queries, etc. This isn’t generally possible with just say a single laptop. You might be the exception of course.

Are you evaluating Elastic Cloud specifically, or is it more Elasticsearch itself (and related products)?

I can appreciate that in many corporate environments setting up the connectivity might be a load of work, requiring all sorts of approvals. It may be easier to do the evaluation locally, establish if the products are a good fit that way? Just an idea.