Elastic and Microsoft have announced a multi-year strategic partnership aimed at enhancing the capabilities of Elastic Cloud on Azure. This collaboration builds on their existing relationship and focuses on improving search, observability, and security for joint customers by integrating Elastic’s solutions with Azure services. The partnership facilitates faster data insights, seamless deployments, and integrated billing, as well as enhanced capabilities for monitoring and protecting applications and infrastructure. Elastic Cloud on Azure allows users to deploy Elasticsearch within the Azure Portal, leveraging Azure's infrastructure to improve business outcomes through scalable and secure data management. With access to a wide range of integrations and tools, customers can optimize application performance, detect real-time performance issues, and enhance security measures across cloud and on-premises environments. The agreement also enables users to start deployments quickly via the Azure Marketplace, aligning with Microsoft's Azure Consumption Commitment and offering expanded regional coverage.