Elastic has announced the public alpha release of Elastic Cloud Enterprise, a new product designed to enable users to deploy and manage Elasticsearch and Kibana clusters on their own infrastructure, whether on physical hardware or a hosting provider. This marks a significant milestone following substantial investment in developing a robust Elasticsearch and Kibana service on AWS and other public cloud platforms. Elastic Cloud Enterprise offers centralized management of multiple clusters, complete with features like provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and backup, thereby simplifying operational lifecycle management and enhancing hardware utilization. The product is especially beneficial for organizations needing to manage large deployments, enabling them to offer services like Logging as a Service by deploying multiple small nodes. The public alpha is intended for testing, and Elastic encourages feedback to refine the product before its general release, even incentivizing early testers with recognition and rewards.