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Author: eedugon

deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-fips-message.md

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+FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) compliance is not officially supported in ECE. While ECE may function on FIPS-enabled systems, this configuration has not been validated through our testing processes and is not recommended for production environments.

deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-supported-combinations.md

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 ::::{important}
 Make sure to use a supported combination of Linux distribution and container engine version as defined in our official [Support matrix](https://www.elastic.co/support/matrix#elastic-cloud-enterprise). Unsupported combinations can lead to various issues in your ECE environment, including failures when creating system deployments, upgrading workload deployments, proxy timeouts, and more.
 
-FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) compliance is not officially supported in ECE. While ECE may function on FIPS-enabled systems, this configuration has not been validated through our testing processes and is not recommended for production environments.
+:::{include} /deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-fips-message.md
+:::
 ::::

deploy-manage/deploy/cloud-enterprise/ece-software-prereq.md

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 To install ECE, make sure you prepare your environment with the following software. Pay special attention to what Linux kernel and Docker or Podman versions you plan to use and follow our recommendations. Our testing has shown that not all software combinations work well together.
 
-::::{include} /deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-supported-combinations.md
-::::
-
 * [Supported Linux kernel](#ece-linux-kernel)
 * [Linux distributions with compatible Docker versions](#ece-linux-docker)
 * [Free RAM](#ece-free-ram)
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 ::::
 
 
+## FIPS compliance
+
+:::{include} /deploy-manage/deploy/_snippets/ece-fips-message.md
+:::
+
+For more information about FIPS compliance across the {{stack}}, refer to [](/deploy-manage/security/fips.md).