Elastic announced the general availability of its Elastic Cloud Serverless powered by a re-architectured Elasticsearch that is built on an industry-first Search AI Lake optimized for real-time applications. It combines vast storage with low-latency querying and all of the strengths of Elasticsearch's AI and search capabilities. Elastic Cloud Serverless is engineered to tackle high-volume, complex, and high-performance workloads--fromretrieval augmented generation (RAG) to threat detection.

By decoupling compute from storage, indexing from search and using cost-effective cloud-native object storage, the architecture scales seamlessly while retaining the rapid, low-latency querying performance and AI relevance capabilities of Elasticsearch. The fully managed Elastic Cloud Serverless offers both streamlined solutions and pricing. The new solution-specific pricing aligns costs with actual usage tailored to the different needs of security, observability, and search -- offering greater flexibility and predictability.

By focusing on resource-based metrics like data ingestion, storage, and compute units, Elastic makes it easier for customers to manage budgets and scale as needed -- enabling more control to manage workloads across different applications. In addition, new volume pricing for security and observability data, using a tiered pricing model, simplifies scaling by reducing costs per unit as data usage increases, making it easy for customers to set up new projects for search, observability and security. Elasticsearch Serverless lets developers rapidly build AI-powered search applications with the latest features, save time managing infrastructure, and scale up or down to meet their needs.

Elastic Observability Serverless enables a hassle-free experience without the overhead of managing the Elastic Stack or manually scaling capacity. Elastic Security Serverless provides security analysts with a new cloud deployment option for their security analytics and SIEM use cases. Pricing and availability: Elastic Cloud Serverless is initially generally available on AWS.

Support for Azure instances will be available in early 2025, opening Elastic Cloud Serverless to Microsoft's growing cloud ecosystem for seamless integration with Azure services like Blob Storage, Event Hubs, and Azure Active Directory among many others to streamline workflows. Support for Google Cloud instances will also be available in early 2025. Elastic Cloud Serverless offer both streamlined solutions and pricing.

Information on the solution-specific pricing is available here. Read the blog to learn how to get started more, including for search, observability, and security, or start your free trial now.