Elastic Cloud Serverless

Differences between serverless projects and hosted deployments on Elastic Cloud

You can run hosted deployments of the Elastic Stack on Elastic Cloud. These hosted deployments provide more provisioning and advanced configuration options.


Option	Serverless	Hosted
Cluster management	Fully managed by Elastic.	You provision and manage your hosted clusters. Shared responsibility with Elastic.
Scaling	Autoscales out of the box.	Manual scaling or autoscaling available for you to enable.
Upgrades	Automatically performed by Elastic.	You choose when to upgrade.
Pricing	Individual per project type and based on your usage.	Based on deployment size and subscription level.
Performance	Autoscales based on your usage.	Manual scaling.
Solutions	Single solution per project.	Full Elastic Stack per deployment.
User management	Elastic Cloud-managed users.	Elastic Cloud-managed users and native Kibana users.
API support	Subset of APIs.	All Elastic APIs.
Backups	Projects automatically backed up by Elastic.	Your responsibility with Snapshot & Restore.
Data retention	Editable on data streams.	Index Lifecycle Management.