We updated the Elastic Cloud brand to encompass all cloud-based offerings from Elastic. If it’s a software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from us, it now falls under the Elastic Cloud umbrella.

Here’s the difference:

The documentation you are currently reading has been updated to refer to the Elasticsearch Service in line with this branding change. To learn more about the different products that fall under the Elastic Cloud umbrella, check Elastic Cloud: Hosted Elasticsearch, Hosted Search.

Service update: July 3, 2018