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Checklist to get ElasticSearch cluster on AWS EC2 working
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Checklist to get ElasticSearch cluster on AWS EC2 working

  • Install cloud-aws-plugin (https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-cloud-aws)

  • Give your EC2 instances IAM Instance Policy with permission to ec2:DescribeInstances. The plugin will automatically get correct access keys after this.

    • You should really do the above, but you can also just create a new IAM user and set up cloud.aws.access_key and cloud.aws.secret_key in elasticsearch.yml. But you really should create instance policy instead.

  • Set discovery.type: ec2 in elasticsearch.yml

  • REMEMBER to set cloud.aws.region in elasticsearch.yml to the region you are running your instances in. Otherwise discovery plugin might not find other cluster instances.

  • Use same security group for all cluster EC2 instances. It should allow:

    • Outbound connections. The discovery plugin needs this so it can use AWS API to find other nodes. NOTE: The instance launch wizard sets this up by default, but if you are using Terraform, make sure to manually set up this rule.

    • Incoming TCP 9300 from all machines in the same security group. This is needed so the discovery plugin can connect nodes it discovered.

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