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This reference provides detailed comparisons of features and capabilities across Elastic's deployment options: self-managed deployments, Elastic Cloud Hosted, and Serverless. For a high-level overview of deployment types and guidance on choosing between them, see the [overview](../deploy.md).
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## Security features
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## Security
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| Feature/capability | Self-managed | Elastic Cloud Hosted | Serverless |
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| Custom security configurations | Yes | Limited | No |
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| Authentication realms and custom roles | Yes | Yes | No |
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| Audit logging | Yes | Yes | No |
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| [Security configurations](/deploy-manage/security.md) | Full control | Limited control | Limited control |
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| [Authentication realms](/deploy-manage/users-roles.md) | Available | Available | Available, through Elastic Cloud only |
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| [Custom roles](/deploy-manage/users-roles.md) | Available | Available | Available |
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| [Audit logging](/deploy-manage/monitor/logging-configuration/configuring-audit-logs.md) | Available | Available | No |
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## Management features
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## Infrastructure and cluster management
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| Feature/capability | Self-managed | Elastic Cloud Hosted | Serverless |
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| Full control over configuration | Yes | Limited | No |
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| Infrastructure flexibility | Yes | No | No |
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| Autoscaling | No | Yes | Yes |
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| Data tiers management | No | Yes | No |
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| Snapshot management | No | Yes | No |
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| High availability and disaster recovery | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Multi-cloud support | No | Yes | Yes |
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| Shard management and replicas | Yes | Yes | No |
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| Hosting | Any infrastructure | Elastic Cloud through AWS, Azure, or GCP | Elastic Cloud through AWS or Azure |
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| Hardware configuration | Full control | Limited control | Managed by Elastic |
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| Autoscaling | No | Available | Automatic |
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| Data tiers management | Through ILM policies | Available | No data tiers |
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| Snapshot management | Custom | Available | Managed by Elastic |
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| High availability and disaster recovery | Available | Available | Managed by Elastic |
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| Shard management and replicas | Available | Available | Managed by Elastic |
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## Monitoring features
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## Monitoring
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| Feature/capability | Self-managed | Elastic Cloud Hosted | Serverless |
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| Watcher | Yes | Yes | No |
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| [Deployment health monitoring](/deploy-manage/monitor.md) | Monitoring cluster | AutoOps or monitoring cluster | Managed by Elastic |
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| [Alerting](/explore-analyze/alerts-cases.md) | Watcher or Kibana alerts | Watcher or Kibana alerts | Alerts |
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## Data lifecycle features
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## Data lifecycle
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| Feature/capability | Self-managed | Elastic Cloud Hosted | Serverless |
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| Index lifecycle management (ILM) | Yes | Yes | No (uses data streams) |
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| Data tiers management | No | Yes | No |
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| Snapshot management | No | Yes | No |
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| [Data lifecycle management](/manage-data/lifecycle.md) | ILM | ILM and data tiers | Data stream lifecycle |
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| [Snapshot management](/deploy-manage/tools/snapshot-and-restore.md) | Custom | Available | Managed by Elastic |
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## Integration features
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## Integrations and extensions
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| Feature/capability | Self-managed | Elastic Cloud Hosted | Serverless |
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| Custom plugins | Yes | No | No |
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| Self-managed connectors | Yes | No | Limited |
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| Elasticsearch-Hadoop integration | Yes | Yes | No |
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| Cross cluster search (CCS) | Yes | Yes | No |
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| Cross cluster replication | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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| Custom plugins and bundles | Available | Available | No |
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| Self-managed connectors | Available | Limited | Limited |
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| Elasticsearch-Hadoop integration | Available | Available | No |
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| Cross cluster search (CCS) | Available | Available | No |
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| Cross cluster replication | Available | Available | No |
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## Development and testing features
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| Advanced testing and development | Yes | No | No |
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| Java (JVM) customization | Yes | No | No |
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| Advanced testing and development | Available | No | No |
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| Java (JVM) customization | Available | No | No |
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