Creating and configuring an Elastic Cloud trial account

In this recipe we will create and configure an Elastic Cloud trial account so that we can use Elasticsearch as a hosted service.  Elastic Cloud is a cloud service offered by the creators of Elasticsearch, and provides a completely managed implementation of Elasticsearch.

Note

While we have examined putting Elasticsearch in a Docker container, actually running a container with Elasticsearch within AWS is very difficult due to a number of memory requirements and other system configurations that are complicated to get working within ECS.  Therefore, for a cloud solution, we will use Elastic Cloud.

How to do it

We'll proceed with the recipe as follows:

1. Open your browser and navigate to https://www.elastic.co/cloud/as-a-service/signup. You will see a page similar to the following:

 

The Elastic Cloud signup page

2. Enter your email and press the Start Free Trial button.  When the email arrives, verify yourself.  You will be taken to a page to create...