- Elastic (ESTC, Financial) announces general availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure.
- Built on Elastic's Search AI Lake architecture, the solution aims to enhance AI, search, and security capabilities.
- Service now available in EastUS, with plans for broader Azure regional expansion.
Elastic (ESTC), known for its innovative search AI technologies, has officially launched Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure. The solution is designed to provide a seamless environment for developers to implement generative AI, search, security, and observability workloads without the need for managing infrastructure.
Utilizing Azure Blob Storage and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Elastic Cloud Serverless offers a fully managed experience with the capability to independently scale workloads. The architecture includes decoupled storage and compute, allowing for optimal performance and cost efficiency. The service targets high-demand scenarios with advanced low-latency querying, object store performance, and streamlined data workflows.
The collaboration with Azure enhances the operational ease due to AKS's autoscaling capabilities, which are crucial for speeding up generative AI deployments. Qi Ke, corporate vice president at Microsoft Azure, emphasized that the partnership aims to support joint customers by reducing operational overhead.
Elastic's Chief Product Officer, Ken Exner, underscored the benefits of leveraging native Azure services such as Event Hubs and Azure Active Directory, which help unlock data value with robust search and AI capabilities powered by Elasticsearch.
The service is currently accessible in the EastUS region, with Elastic planning further expansions across more Azure regions and new functionalities to improve service performance and user experience. Elastic Cloud Serverless is available under a usage-based pricing model, which ensures that customers only pay for the resources they utilize, whether in data ingestion and retention or compute power.
To discover more about Elastic (ESTC, Financial) and its offerings, visit their website or start a free trial of the Elastic Cloud Serverless on Azure.
