Elasticsearch Service has expanded its availability to the Azure Washington (westus2) region, marking its fourth global Azure region and the second in the United States. This expansion allows existing users to access the new region immediately via Elastic Cloud, while new users can explore it with a 14-day free trial. The service includes exclusive features such as native security, index and snapshot lifecycle management, and machine learning capabilities, along with support for various use cases like logging and analytics. Elastic, in partnership with Microsoft, aims to enhance the Elastic Stack experience on Azure and plans to introduce more Azure regions for the service. Additionally, customers will soon be able to purchase Elasticsearch Service subscriptions through the Azure Marketplace, with comprehensive migration support available for those transitioning existing deployments.