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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.

Tip

Private connection policies are a type of network security policy.

Choose the relevant option for your cloud service provider:

Cloud service provider Service Applicable deployment types
AWS AWS PrivateLink Elastic Cloud Hosted, Serverless
Azure Azure Private Link Elastic Cloud Hosted
GCP GCP Private Service Connect Elastic Cloud Hosted

After you set up your private connection, you can claim ownership of your private connection ID 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, refer to Network security policies in Elastic Cloud.

Tip

Elastic Cloud Hosted and Elastic Cloud Serverless also support IP filters. You can apply both IP filters and private connections to a single Elastic Cloud resource.

Note

Private connection policies were formerly referred to as PrivateLink traffic filters.