Elastic Cloud is the cloud-based, hosted, and managed setup of the Elastic Stack components. The service is provided by Elastic (https://www.elastic.co/), which is behind the development of Elasticsearch and other Elastic Stack components. All Elastic Stack components are open source except X-Pack (and Elastic Cloud). Elastic, the company, provides services for Elastic Stack components including training, development, support, and cloud hosting.

Apart from Elastic Cloud, other hosted solutions are available for Elasticsearch, including one from Amazon Web Services (AWS). The advantage of Elastic Cloud is that it is developed and maintained by the original creators of Elasticsearch and other Elastic Stack components.