# Using AWS EC2 for elasticsearch cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-aws-ec2-for-elasticsearch-cluster/98683>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 29, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-aws-ec2-for-elasticsearch-cluster/98683 "2017-08-29T12:26:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![mruthyu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bb73d2/32.png) [@mruthyu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mruthyu)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 12:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-aws-ec2-for-elasticsearch-cluster/98683/1 "2017-08-29T12:26:25Z")

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Is there any points we should be aware of while planning to have the ELK stack on AWS EC2 instances.

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**Author:** ![Mike.Barretta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/mike.barretta/32/16688_2.png) [@Mike.Barretta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mike.Barretta)\
**Post date:** [August 29, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-aws-ec2-for-elasticsearch-cluster/98683/2 "2017-08-29T15:15:48Z")

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some good blogs:

- [https://www.elastic.co/blog/running-elasticsearch-on-aws](https://www.elastic.co/blog/running-elasticsearch-on-aws)
- [http://code972.com/blog/2017/03/109-easily-deploying-elasticsearch-on-aws-with-terraform-and-packer](http://code972.com/blog/2017/03/109-easily-deploying-elasticsearch-on-aws-with-terraform-and-packer)

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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:** [September 26, 2017, 3:16pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/using-aws-ec2-for-elasticsearch-cluster/98683/3 "2017-09-26T15:16:12Z")

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