Elastic Cloud Hosted achieves FedRAMP® High authorization

Elastic deepens its commitment to the highest levels of security for US federal agencies.

March 31, 2026

Today, we’re announcing that Elastic Cloud Hosted has achieved FedRAMP® High status on AWS GovCloud (US). This designation from the US Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is the organization’s most stringent security baseline, requiring 400+ security controls.

This achievement demonstrates Elastic’s longstanding commitment to providing US federal agencies with scalable and efficient search, observability, and security solutions. In addition to our FedRAMP High and FedRAMP Moderate offerings, over the past year, Elastic has continued to strengthen our government-specific offerings tailored to accelerating missions:

SIEM-as-a-Service: In late 2025, we partnered with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and ECS to offer Elastic’s AI-powered security information event management (SIEM) and advanced security analytics solution delivered as a service to all federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) agencies. CISA’s SIEM-as-a-Service program standardizes cybersecurity monitoring across FCEBs to enhance security with greater speed, scale, and operational consistency, while leveraging Elastic’s standards-based platform to significantly reduce costs associated with data access and retention.
GSA OneGov program: Elastic has also partnered with the US General Services Administration (GSA) on a volume-based discount buying program for US federal agencies. This program streamlines the procurement process, builds efficiencies of scale, and increases time to value.

Why does FedRAMP High matter for government agencies?

FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services.

Requiring more than 400 security controls, FedRAMP High is FedRAMP’s most stringent security baseline designed to protect “the government’s most sensitive, unclassified data in cloud computing environments, including data that involves the protection of life and financial ruin."¹

Elastic Cloud Hosted is also available as FedRAMP Moderate authorized on AWS GovCloud (US) for agencies that don’t require High authorization. Both options enable agencies to use the Elastic platform to handle sensitive data for a variety of mission-critical use cases, such as AI-powered SIEM, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and logging compliance and observability as well as capabilities for building modern mission search and AI citizen experiences.

Elastic on AWS GovCloud: Securely operationalizing data at scale

For organizations responsible for using and storing highly sensitive data, such as law enforcement, emergency response, and health and financial systems, Elastic Cloud Hosted on FedRAMP High provides a secure foundation for putting that data to use for investigations, threat hunting, AI, and more.

The Elasticsearch Platform enables federal agencies to transform massive amounts of data into actionable, mission-critical insights through our open source, scalable, and flexible AI-powered technology. Built on the principles of a distributed data mesh, Elastic makes it possible for agencies to leave data in its original format and location but search and analyze it holistically.

AWS has recognized Elastic with its Government ISV Partner Competency based on Elastic’s consistent delivery of high-quality solutions that help government agencies meet mandates, reduce costs, and boost innovation. With Elastic on AWS GovCloud, agencies can:

Implement a defensible architecture
Build real-time mission search and generative AI (GenAI) experiences
Strengthen interoperability and efficiency
Gain unified visibility across Zero Trust pillars
Manage logs affordably and comply with M-21-31

Implementing a defensible architecture

Elastic Security unifies modern SIEM, endpoint, and cloud security. Because AI was built into the platform, Elastic can triage security alerts, provide critical context, and remediate quickly. By migrating to Elastic Security, organizations have seen results ranging from 36% reduction in annual risk exposure to a 90% reduction in security events and incidents.

Building real-time mission search and GenAI experiences

With Elastic’s modern search technology, including semantic, vector, and hybrid search, agencies can quickly access, correlate, and analyze information across all data types and systems. Using retrieval augmented generation (RAG), they can securely connect their own data to large language models (LLMs) of their choice.

Learn how a large aerospace organization is using Elastic to support 30,000 monthly searches across 2 million documents from over 50 sources.

Strengthening interoperability and efficiency

Rooted in open source, Elastic supports many Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects from Kubernetes to OpenTelemetry and more. These integrations reduce vendor lock-in and tool sprawl by standardizing on common technology and data. And because data in Elastic is stored in nonproprietary formats, federal agencies have the freedom to share code and architecture with other projects and systems in order to create efficiencies between agencies that rely on the same data.

Gaining unified visibility across Zero Trust pillars

Elastic’s unified data platform centralizes logs and telemetry data across identity, device, and network sources, creating a single source of truth for continuous trust validation. By combining scalable ingestion with analytics and AI-driven detection, Elastic equips agencies to meet CISA’s Zero Trust mandates with agility and cost efficiency. One large federal agency using Elastic for Zero Trust was able to decrease its mean time to respond (MTTR) by more than 50% while reducing costs.

Managing logs affordably and comply with M-21-31

With Elasticsearch logsdb index mode, federal government agencies can reduce data storage costs by up to 65% while adhering to regulations. Agencies are able to maintain comprehensive log data for compliance and auditing purposes, such as M-21-31, without incurring prohibitive costs. At the same time, critical log data remains accessible and manageable, supporting long-term data retention strategies while adhering to budget constraints.

Deployment options to fit your mission

Elastic Cloud Hosted FedRAMP High is a deployment option ideal for sensitive US government use cases, but agencies can also choose to deploy Elastic in other ways from self-managed to serverless and FedRAMP Moderate on AWS GovCloud (US).

Learn more about Elastic’s FedRAMP offerings, or contact our US federal team.

¹FedRAMP, “Understanding Baselines and Impact Levels in FedRAMP,” November 2017.

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