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EC2 Discovery Plugin

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The EC2 discovery plugin uses the AWS API for unicast discovery.

If you are looking for a hosted solution of Elasticsearch on AWS, please visit http://www.elastic.co/cloud.

Installation

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This plugin can be installed using the plugin manager:

sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin install discovery-ec2

The plugin must be installed on every node in the cluster, and each node must be restarted after installation.

This plugin can be downloaded for offline install from https://artifacts.elastic.co/downloads/elasticsearch-plugins/discovery-ec2/discovery-ec2-6.6.2.zip.

Removal

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The plugin can be removed with the following command:

sudo bin/elasticsearch-plugin remove discovery-ec2

The node must be stopped before removing the plugin.

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