---
title: Elastic Cloud Forwarder
description: Introduction to {{edot-cf}}, the {{edot}} Collector for Cloud providers. Send your telemetry data to Elastic Stack from AWS, GCP, and Azure.
url: https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/edot-cloud-forwarder
products:
  - EDOT Cloud Forwarder
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Observability
applies_to:
  - Serverless Observability projects: Preview
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted: Preview
---

# Elastic Cloud Forwarder
Elastic Cloud Forwarder provides the Elastic Agent as a function to collect and send your telemetry data to Elastic Observability from AWS, GCP, and Azure. Elastic Cloud Forwarder can collect telemetry data from object storage and cloud services.
Elastic Cloud Forwarder sends the data it collects directly to the [Managed OTLP endpoint](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/docs-content/tree/main/solutions/observability/get-started/quickstart-elastic-cloud-otel-endpoint) of Elastic Cloud Serverless.

## Supported cloud providers and services

Elastic Cloud Forwarder is available for the following cloud providers and services:

| Cloud provider | Cloud service           | Availability                                                                                                                                  |
|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| AWS            | S3, CloudWatch          | [Elastic Cloud Forwarder for AWS](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/edot-cloud-forwarder-aws/tree/main/reference/edot-cf-aws)       |
| Azure          | Blob Storage, Event Hub | [Elastic Cloud Forwarder for Azure](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/edot-cloud-forwarder-azure/tree/main/reference/edot-cf-azure) |
| GCP            | GCS, Operations         | [Elastic Cloud Forwarder for GCP](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/edot-cloud-forwarder/gcp)      |


## Get started

To get started with Elastic Cloud Forwarder, select the setup guide for your cloud provider:
- [AWS](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/edot-cloud-forwarder-aws/tree/main/reference/edot-cf-aws)
- [Azure](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/edot-cloud-forwarder-azure/tree/main/reference/edot-cf-azure)
- [GCP](https://docs-v3-preview.elastic.dev/elastic/opentelemetry/pull/640/reference/edot-cloud-forwarder/gcp)