﻿---
title: Private connectivity
description: Private connectivity is a secure way for your Elastic Cloud deployments and projects to communicate with other cloud provider services over your cloud...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/private-connectivity
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available
---

# Private connectivity
Private connectivity is a secure way for your Elastic Cloud deployments and projects to communicate with other cloud provider services over your cloud provider's private network. You can create a virtual private connection (VPC) using your provider's private link service, and then manage it in Elastic Cloud using a private connection policy. You can also optionally filter traffic to your deployments and projects by creating ingress filters for your VPC in Elastic Cloud.
Serverless projects require the Serverless Plus add-on to apply private connection policies. During the promotional period, applying a private connection policy to a project opts that project in to Serverless Plus.
<tip>
  Private connection policies are a type of [network security policy](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/network-security-policies).
</tip>

Choose the relevant option for your cloud service provider:

| Cloud service provider | Service                                                                                                                              | Applicable deployment types      |
|------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| AWS                    | [AWS PrivateLink](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/private-connectivity-aws)             | Elastic Cloud Hosted, Serverless |
| Azure                  | [Azure Private Link](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/private-connectivity-azure)        | Elastic Cloud Hosted             |
| GCP                    | [GCP Private Service Connect](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/private-connectivity-gcp) | Elastic Cloud Hosted             |

For private connections created for Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments, after you set up your private connection, you can [claim ownership of your private connection ID](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/claim-private-connection-api) to prevent other organizations from using it.
To learn how private connection policies work, how they affect your deployment or project, and how they interact with [IP filter policies](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/ip-filtering-cloud), refer to [Network security policies in Elastic Cloud](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/network-security-policies).
<tip>
  Elastic Cloud Hosted and Elastic Cloud Serverless also support [IP filters](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/2771/deploy-manage/security/ip-filtering-cloud). You can apply both IP filters and private connections to a single Elastic Cloud resource.
</tip>

<note>
  Private connection policies were formerly referred to as PrivateLink traffic filters.
</note>