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title: Ingestion options
description: You have a number of options for ingesting data with AWS. The following table helps you identify which option best fits your needs: The high-level architecture...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/observability/cloud/ingestion-options
products:
  - Elastic Observability
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# Ingestion options
You have a number of options for ingesting data with AWS. The following table helps you identify which option best fits your needs:

|                                                        | Amazon Data Firehose                                                 | ESF                                                                  | Elastic Agent                                                        | Beats                                                                |
|--------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **logs**logs                                           | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes |
| **metrics**metrics                                     | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes | ![No](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-no.png)No    | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes |
| **PrivateLink support / VPC**PrivateLink support / VPC | ![No](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-no.png)No    | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes | ![Yes](https://doc-icons.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/icon-yes.png)Yes |
| **pros**pros                                           | Managed service, auto-scale                                          | Auto-scale, built-in support for SQS                                 | Supports all integrations, manages multiple agents using Fleet       | Large configuration options                                          |
| **cons**cons                                           | Few configuration options                                            | Partial integrations support                                         | Not a managed service, no auto-scale                                 | Not a managed service, no auto-scale                                 |


## Overview of the ingest process

The high-level architecture is shown below.
![Ingest options](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/4236/solutions/images/observability-ingest-options-overview.png)