If you like Elastic Stack + X-Pack you better bet on Elastic Enterprise

Cloud technologies like ECE (Elastic “Cloud” Enterprise) for public or private services offer an unprecedented opportunity to automate service delivery processes and expand portfolios (yes, more use cases based on the Elastic Stack to come). Even though there is an ongoing debate related to the impact on human labor, most likely the trend towards automation will continue to persist. From the perspective of a service provider investing into Elastic products, there are few challenges.

Firstly, investments need to happen in deployment of solutions (think of logging, metric, security analytics, enterprise/site search or APM). With regards to Elastic, this means an invest to reassure the alignment with best practices and support policies as provided by Elastic. None of the existing technologies, for instance Kubernetes, are ready to provide out-of-the-box support which is really aligned with Elastic yet (for sure we will get there one day). This introduces some risks. The expansion of the use cases for Elastic, it's speed of development will require a quick adoption of, for instance, deployment models. ECE to the rescue. ECE is the flag ship which incorporates all features and best practices and helps to align with support policies as currently available on the market.

Secondly, with scale of business and number of services, the focus of service providers will increasingly shift to automate processes for deployment of solutions. The automation offers substantial benefits to reduce costs, time-to-market and increase the ability to quickly respond to changing demand and conditions. This, however, will require service providers to invest into this effort continuously as Elastic adds more use cases based on the Elastic Stack. With regards to Elastic, ECE is the best-of-class product with incorporated automation engine. Give it a spin today and download ECE here!