Elastic has announced the inclusion of C7gd instance types in its Elastic Cloud Hosted — FedRAMP Moderate Authorized service, offering significant price-performance improvements for U.S. agencies and organizations. Powered by AWS Graviton3 processors and local NVMe-based SSDs, these new instances boast up to 45% better real-time NVMe storage performance compared to Graviton2-based counterparts, making them particularly suitable for Elastic workloads involving Search, Observability, and Security within the secure FedRAMP Moderate environment. Users can experience up to a 40% improvement in price performance over Intel-based instances. The process for creating or migrating to C7gd instances is straightforward, with detailed instructions provided for both new and existing users. Elastic emphasizes that the release and timing of new features are at its discretion, and there is no guarantee that all described functionalities will be available as planned.