Elastic has announced the availability of Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure in regions including North Europe (Ireland), Australia East (New South Wales), and West US (Washington), offering a streamlined way to scale security, observability, and search solutions without managing infrastructure. Built on the Search AI Lake architecture leveraging Azure Blob Storage, this service allows independent scaling of workloads through decoupled compute and storage while maintaining high performance with low-latency query capabilities. Elastic Cloud Serverless eliminates the need for operational management like cluster provisioning and performance tuning, offering a flexible usage-based pricing model for data ingested and retained in Elastic Security and Observability products or compute resources in Elasticsearch. Users can easily create a serverless project via the Elastic Cloud console by selecting the project type and region, with projects provisioned within minutes. Elastic is also working on expanding to more Azure regions and enhancing features, emphasizing a future where search, security, and observability can be achieved efficiently without compromising on speed, scale, or cost, and urging users to explore serverless possibilities or start a free trial on Azure. The post also notes potential involvement of third-party AI tools, reminding users to be cautious with sensitive data due to privacy and security concerns.