August 2026 Summaries

Elastic Cloud Serverless now includes Azure Private Link support, which became generally available on August 4, 2026, allowing direct connectivity between Azure workloads and Serverless projects over Azure's private network without public internet exposure. This follows the February 2026 release of AWS PrivateLink support, making Azure the second cloud provider to achieve general availability. When a private connection policy is applied, all traffic between Azure Virtual Network and Elastic travels entirely within Azure's network fabric, rejecting requests not routed through a private endpoint or IP filter with a 403 Forbidden error. Users must create a private connection policy in the Elastic Cloud Console, specifying the resource IDs of desired private endpoints, which Elastic uses for auto-approval. The service is available at no extra charge for Observability and Security Serverless projects from August 4, 2026, with grandfathered rights for earlier projects, ensuring continued use of traffic filtering features. Elastic Cloud's ongoing investment in network security is evident as Azure Private Link complements AWS PrivateLink, enhancing secure connectivity across cloud providers.