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title: Subscribe from a marketplace
description: You can subscribe to Elastic Cloud from a cloud marketplace instead of paying Elastic directly. Marketplace subscriptions offer the following benefits:...
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/subscribe-from-marketplace
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Generally available
---

# Subscribe from a marketplace
You can subscribe to Elastic Cloud from a cloud marketplace instead of paying Elastic directly. Marketplace subscriptions offer the following benefits:
- **Consolidated billing.** Your Elastic Cloud charges appear on your existing cloud provider bill alongside your other services.
- **Spend commitment.** Your Elastic Cloud usage counts toward your committed spend with your cloud provider. If you subscribe directly to Elastic (with a credit card or an Elastic contract), your Elastic Cloud spend does not count toward any cloud provider commitment.
- **Simplified procurement.** No need to set up a separate billing relationship with Elastic.

Trial availability and duration can vary depending on the marketplace.

## Marketplace options

- [AWS Marketplace](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/aws-marketplace)
- [Microsoft Marketplace](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/azure-native-isv-service)
- [GCP Marketplace](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/google-cloud-platform-marketplace)
- [Heroku](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/heroku) (Elastic Cloud Hosted only - no organization functionality)

<tip>
  You can also purchase Elastic Cloud through a reseller on any of these marketplaces. Contact your reseller to learn more.
</tip>


## How marketplaces, organizations, and accounts work together

When you subscribe to Elastic Cloud through a marketplace, a relationship is established between your marketplace account and an Elastic Cloud [organization](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/cloud-organization).
- **One marketplace subscription maps to one Elastic Cloud organization.** Billing for all deployments and projects within that organization flows through the linked marketplace subscription. The specifics vary by marketplace:
  - **AWS**: One subscription for each AWS billing account. Customers with multiple AWS accounts (for example, production and development) can have separate subscriptions, each linked to its own Elastic Cloud organization.
- **GCP**: One Elastic Cloud organization for each GCP billing account.
- **Azure**: Organization creation is tied to Elastic resource creation in the Azure portal, so customers who create multiple resources can accumulate multiple organizations.
- **Each organization can only be linked to a single billing source**: either a marketplace subscription or direct credit card billing.
- **A single Elastic Cloud account can belong to [multiple organizations](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/cloud-organization/manage-multiple-organizations).** When you subscribe through a marketplace, you can either create a new organization or link the subscription to an existing one. If your account is organization owner for multiple organizations, you choose which organization to associate with the marketplace subscription.
- **Your Elastic Cloud account uses a single email address across all your organizations.** If you already have an Elastic Cloud account, you can sign in with your existing credentials during the marketplace sign-up process. If you don't have an account, one is created using your marketplace email.

If you already have an Elastic Cloud trial and want to start paying through a marketplace, you can [upgrade your trial to a marketplace subscription](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/pull/7308/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/marketplace-trial-upgrade) without losing your existing deployments, projects, or data.

## Multi-cloud strategy

Because a single Elastic Cloud account can belong to multiple organizations, and each organization can be linked to a different marketplace, you can subscribe to multiple marketplaces to support a multi-cloud strategy. For example, you might have:
- An AWS Marketplace subscription for an organization running production workloads on AWS
- A GCP Marketplace subscription for a separate organization running analytics workloads on GCP

Each subscription counts toward the respective cloud provider's spend commitment, letting you maximize the benefits of each marketplace independently.