Elasticsearch preinstalled for AWS. Single node distributed search and analytics engine on Ubuntu 24.04 with a per instance elastic superuser password generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
## Elasticsearch by cloudimg
Elasticsearch is the open source distributed search and analytics engine that powers log analytics, observability, application search and security analytics for organisations of every size. This Amazon Machine Image delivers Elasticsearch fully installed and configured, so a working search and analytics node is running within minutes of launch. Packages are installed from the official Elastic software repository.
## Search Stack
The image runs a single Elasticsearch node with the bundled OpenJDK runtime. The REST API listens on port 9200, the cluster transport on port 9300, and index data lives on a dedicated resizable EBS volume. Customers can join additional nodes to form a cluster themselves.
## Secure First Boot
On the first boot of every instance a one shot service generates a fresh password for the elastic superuser, unique to that instance, applies it to the Elasticsearch security index and writes the plain text value to a root only file. No shared or default credentials ship in the image and the API is never exposed without authentication.
## Lean And Predictable
This image runs Elasticsearch only. Kibana and Logstash are available separately in the ELK Stack listing. Keeping Elasticsearch standalone leaves the full resources of the instance available to the search workload and matches the upstream documentation for production deployments.
## cloudimg Support
cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this image, covering Elasticsearch deployment, index design, ingest pipelines, performance tuning, snapshots and upgrades.