The text provides a detailed guide on automating the migration of Elastic workloads from on-premises to Elastic on AWS, highlighting the benefits of leveraging cost, time, and scale efficiencies. It outlines three main migration paths—data re-ingestion, snapshot and restore, and reindexing from a cluster—each suited for different scenarios depending on data source and existing Elasticsearch versions. The guide focuses on using the snapshot and restore method with Terraform, an open-source infrastructure as code software, and emphasizes the importance of prerequisites such as ensuring version compatibility, verifying infrastructure capacity, and setting up necessary AWS resources and permissions. Additionally, it discusses creating and configuring snapshot repositories, provisioning AWS resources, and managing access keys through HashiCorp Vault for security. The text also highlights Elastic's certification as an AWS ISV Workload Migration Program partner, which offers resources, guidance, and potential financial assistance for migration, while encouraging users to take advantage of a 7-day free trial and Elastic Consulting services for complex migrations.