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# Deploy

Whether you're planning to use Elastic's pre-built solutions or Serverless projects, build your own applications with {{es}}, or analyze your data using {{kib}} tools, you'll need to deploy Elastic first.
Whether you're planning to use Elastic's pre-built solutions or Serverless projects, build your own applications with {{es}}, or analyze your data using {{kib}} tools, you need to deploy Elastic first.

This page will help you understand your deployment options and choose the approach that best fits your needs.

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An orchestrator automates the deployment and management of multiple Elastic clusters, handling tasks like scaling, upgrades, and monitoring.

Consider orchestration if you:
- Need to manage multiple Elastic clusters
- Want automated operations at scale
- Have a Kubernetes environment (ECK)
- Need to build a multi-tenant platform (ECE)
Consider orchestration in the following cases:
- You need to manage multiple Elastic clusters
- You want automated operations at scale
- You have a Kubernetes environment (ECK)
- You need to build a multi-tenant platform (ECE)

Orchestrators manage the lifecycle of your Elastic deployments but don't change how the core products work. When using an orchestrated deployment:
- You'll still use the same {{es}} and {{kib}} features and configurations
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In {{serverless-full}}, you automatically get access to the latest versions of Elastic features and you don't need to manage version compatibility.

With other deployment types (ECH, ECE, and ECK), you control which {{stack}} versions you deploy and when you upgrade. The ECE and ECK orchestrators themselves also receive regular version updates, independent of the {{stack}} versions they manage.
With other deployment types (fully self-managed, ECH, ECE, and ECK), you control which {{stack}} versions you deploy and when you upgrade. The ECE and ECK orchestrators themselves also receive regular version updates, independent of the {{stack}} versions they manage.

Consider this when choosing your deployment type:

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- **{{serverless-full}}**: Pay for what you use
- **{{ech}}**: Subscription-based with resource allocation
- **Self-hosted options**: Infrastructure costs plus operational overhead mean a higher total cost of ownership (TCO)
- **Self-hosted options**, **including fully self-managed, ECE, and ECK**: Infrastructure costs plus operational overhead mean a higher total cost of ownership (TCO)

:::::{tip}
For a detailed comparison of features and capabilities across deployment types, see the [](./deploy/deployment-comparison.md).
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# Detailed deployment comparison

This reference provides detailed comparisons of features and capabilities across Elastic's deployment options: self-managed deployments, {{ech}}, and Serverless. For a high-level overview of deployment types and guidance on choosing between them, see the [overview](../deploy.md).
This reference provides detailed comparisons of features and capabilities across Elastic's deployment options: [fully self-managed clusters](/deploy-manage/deploy/self-managed.md), [{{ece}}](/deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-enterprise.md) (ECE), [{{eck}}](/deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-on-k8s.md) (ECK), [{{ech}}](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/cloud-hosted.md) (ECH), and [{{serverless-full}}](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/serverless.md). For a high-level overview of deployment types and guidance on choosing between them, refer to the [Deploy and manage overview](../deploy.md).

For more details about feature availability in Serverless, check [](elastic-cloud/differences-from-other-elasticsearch-offerings.md#elasticsearch-differences-serverless-feature-categories).
For more details about feature availability in {{serverless-short}}, refer to [](elastic-cloud/differences-from-other-elasticsearch-offerings.md#elasticsearch-differences-serverless-feature-categories).

## Security

| Feature/capability | Self-managed | {{ech}} | Serverless |
| Feature/capability | Fully self-managed, ECE, ECK | ECH | {{serverless-short}} |
|-------------------|-------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
| [Security configurations](/deploy-manage/security.md) | Full control | Limited control | Limited control |
| [Authentication realms](/deploy-manage/users-roles.md) | Available | Available | Available, through {{ecloud}} only |
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## Infrastructure and cluster management

| Feature/capability | Self-managed | {{ech}} | Serverless |
|-------------------|-------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
| Hosting | Any infrastructure | {{ecloud}} through AWS, Azure, or GCP | {{ecloud}} through AWS, Azure, or GCP |
| Hardware configuration | Full control | Limited control | Managed by Elastic |
| Autoscaling | No | Available | Automatic |
| Data tiers management | Through ILM policies | Available | No data tiers |
| Snapshot management | Custom | Available | Managed by Elastic |
| High availability and disaster recovery | Available | Available | Managed by Elastic |
| Shard management and replicas | Available | Available | Managed by Elastic |
| Feature/capability | Fully self-managed | ECE | ECK | ECH | {{serverless-short}} |
|--------------------|--------------------|---------|---------|-----------------|-------------------------|
| Hosting | Any infrastructure | Any infrastructure | Any infrastructure | {{ecloud}} through AWS, Azure, or GCP | {{ecloud}} through AWS, Azure, or GCP |
| Hardware configuration | Full control | Full control | Full control | Limited control | Managed by Elastic |
| [Autoscaling](/deploy-manage/autoscaling.md) | No | Available | Available | Available | Automatic |
| [Data tier](/manage-data/lifecycle/data-tiers.md) management | Through [ILM policies](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management.md) | Through [ILM policies](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management.md) | Through [ILM policies](/manage-data/lifecycle/index-lifecycle-management.md) | Available | No data tiers |
| [Snapshot management](/deploy-manage/tools/snapshot-and-restore.md) | Custom | Custom | Available | Available | Managed by Elastic |
| [High availability and disaster recovery](/deploy-manage/production-guidance/availability-and-resilience.md) | Available | Available | Available | Available | Managed by Elastic |
| [Shard management and replicas](/deploy-manage/distributed-architecture/clusters-nodes-shards.md) | Available | Available | Available | Available | Managed by Elastic |

## Monitoring

| Feature/capability | Self-managed | {{ech}} | Serverless |
|-------------------|-------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
| Feature/capability | Fully self-managed, ECE, ECK | ECH | {{serverless-short}} |
|-------------------|-------------------------------|---------|----------------------|
| [Deployment health monitoring](/deploy-manage/monitor.md) | AutoOps or monitoring cluster | AutoOps or monitoring cluster | Managed by Elastic |
| [Alerting](/explore-analyze/alerts-cases.md) | Watcher or {{kib}} alerts | Watcher or {{kib}} alerts | Alerts ([why?](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/differences-from-other-elasticsearch-offerings.md#elasticsearch-differences-serverless-features-replaced)) |

## Data lifecycle

| Feature/capability | Self-managed | {{ech}} | Serverless |
|-------------------|-------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
| Feature/capability | Fully self-managed, ECE, ECK | ECH | {{serverless-short}} |
|-------------------|-------------------------------|---------|----------------------|
| [Data lifecycle management](/manage-data/lifecycle.md) | ILM, data tiers, data stream lifecycle | ILM, data tiers, data stream lifecycle | Data stream lifecycle ([why?](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/differences-from-other-elasticsearch-offerings.md#elasticsearch-differences-serverless-features-replaced)) |
| [Snapshot management](/deploy-manage/tools/snapshot-and-restore.md) | Custom | Available | Managed by Elastic |

## Integrations and extensions

| Feature/capability | Self-managed | {{ech}} | Serverless |
|-------------------|-------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
| Feature/capability | Fully self-managed, ECE, ECK | ECH | {{serverless-short}} |
|-------------------|-------------------------------|---------|----------------------|
| Custom plugins and bundles | Available | Available | No |
| Self-managed connectors | Available | Limited | Limited |
| Elasticsearch-Hadoop integration | Available | Available | No |
| Cross cluster search (CCS) | Available | Available | [Planned](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/differences-from-other-elasticsearch-offerings.md#elasticsearch-differences-serverless-feature-planned) |
| Cross cluster replication | Available | Available | [Planned](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/differences-from-other-elasticsearch-offerings.md#elasticsearch-differences-serverless-feature-planned) |
| [Self-managed connectors](elasticsearch://reference/search-connectors/self-managed-connectors.md) | Available | Limited | Limited |
| [{{es}}-Hadoop integration](elasticsearch-hadoop://reference/index.md) | Available | Available | No |
| [Cross cluster search (CCS)](/solutions/search/cross-cluster-search.md) | Available | Available | [Planned](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/differences-from-other-elasticsearch-offerings.md#elasticsearch-differences-serverless-feature-planned) |
| [Cross cluster replication](/deploy-manage/tools/cross-cluster-replication.md) | Available | Available | [Planned](/deploy-manage/deploy/elastic-cloud/differences-from-other-elasticsearch-offerings.md#elasticsearch-differences-serverless-feature-planned) |

## Development and testing features

| Feature/capability | Self-managed | {{ech}} | Serverless |
|-------------------|-------------|--------------------------------|-------------------------|
| Feature/capability | Fully self-managed, ECE, ECK | ECH | {{serverless-short}} |
|-------------------|-------------------------------|---------|----------------------|
| Advanced testing and development | Available | No | No |
| Java (JVM) customization | Available | No | No |

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