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EC2 Discovery Pluginedit
The EC2 discovery plugin provides a list of seed addresses to the discovery process by querying the AWS API for a list of EC2 instances matching certain criteria determined by the plugin settings.
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Installationedit
Version 8.0.0 of the Elastic Stack has not yet been released.
Removaledit
The plugin can be removed with the following command:
sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin remove discovery-ec2
The node must be stopped before removing the plugin.