# Why ECK does not support gold and platinum license? **URL:** \ **Category:** Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)\ **Tags:** license\ **Created:** [July 23, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-eck-does-not-support-gold-and-platinum-license/242272 "2020-07-23T03:50:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cnlics](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cnlics/32/75983_2.png) [@cnlics](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cnlics)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2020, 3:50am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-eck-does-not-support-gold-and-platinum-license/242272/1 "2020-07-23T03:50:26Z")
why ECK does not support gold and platinum license?really very strange design for a product is there plan to support them? will gold and platinum license be discarded in future? ---
**Author:** ![sebgl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/sebgl/32/48702_2.png) [@sebgl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sebgl)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 9:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-eck-does-not-support-gold-and-platinum-license/242272/2 "2020-07-28T09:25:07Z")
ECK requires an [Enterprise license](https://www.elastic.co/subscriptions), and can manage several Elastic stack resources. You can enable [a trial](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/master/k8s-licensing.html). ECK does not support gold and platinum licenses. Gold and platinum licenses are not discarded and not going away. ---
**Author:** ![cnlics](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cnlics/32/75983_2.png) [@cnlics](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cnlics)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2020, 2:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-eck-does-not-support-gold-and-platinum-license/242272/3 "2020-08-03T02:28:10Z")
then what can we do if only have paltinum license of elasticsearch?give up ECK? ---
**Author:** ![cnlics](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cnlics/32/75983_2.png) [@cnlics](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cnlics)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 2:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-eck-does-not-support-gold-and-platinum-license/242272/4 "2020-08-04T02:07:48Z")
does it mean that for customers who are possessing gold / platinum license can not use ECK in their native env? ---
**Author:** ![Shubha\_Anjur\_Tupil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shubha_anjur_tupil/32/58727_2.png) [@Shubha\_Anjur\_Tupil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shubha_Anjur_Tupil)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2020, 4:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-eck-does-not-support-gold-and-platinum-license/242272/5 "2020-08-04T04:31:43Z")
Customers with Gold/Platinum licenses would have to upgrade to an Enterprise license to use ECK for orchestration. Let us know if we can help. ---
**Author:** ![cnlics](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cnlics/32/75983_2.png) [@cnlics](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cnlics)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2020, 3:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-eck-does-not-support-gold-and-platinum-license/242272/6 "2020-09-22T03:09:15Z")
suggest give an obvious remind or note in the page [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-quickstart.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/cloud-on-k8s/current/k8s-quickstart.html). although there is remind in the detailed file. that is very important for users not possess enterprise license。 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2022, 8:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/why-eck-does-not-support-gold-and-platinum-license/242272/7 "2022-11-04T08:07:21Z")