# Secure communications?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/secure-communications/141458>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 25, 2018, 12:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/secure-communications/141458 "2018-07-25T00:52:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimV](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/timv/32/13162_2.png) [@TimV](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/TimV)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 7:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/secure-communications/141458/7 "2018-07-25T07:45:23Z")

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@dadoonet

> [@X-pack cloud & remote Kibana instances?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-cloud-remote-kibana-instances/141291):
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> Hi, If I have Elasticsearch running in a Elastic cloud instance, can I run a Kibana instance on a different server but still use all the x-pack features? I want to achieve some sort of multi tenancy and it looks like multiple Kibana instances is the only way to do that at the moment without having to do any additional programming on my end. However our cloud instance is small enough to receive the X-pack for free so we don't have a license to just install on our own server along with several K…

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