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Elastic

Elastic makes Elasticsearch, widely used software for searching and analyzing large amounts of data, and sells it as a cloud service and as software for security monitoring and system observability.

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What it does

Elastic makes Elasticsearch, widely used software for searching and analyzing large amounts of data, and sells it as a cloud service and as software for security monitoring and system observability.

Why it matters

AI applications need to find the right company data to feed a model (retrieval, or 'context'); Elastic sells vector search, embedding models from its Jina AI unit, and agent-building tools for that job, alongside its older search, logging and security business.

How it makes money

Companies pay subscriptions for Elastic Cloud usage and for self-managed software licenses and support.

Geography

United States (San Francisco); incorporated in the Netherlands as Elastic N.V.

AI stack position

AI infrastructure software. The tools developers use to build, train, deploy and manage AI systems: the software layer that sits between raw computing power and a finished AI product.

Same-layer peers

Same-layer peers share an editorial stack classification; that alone does not establish direct competition.

Connections (3)

Every connection below is tied to a readable source, date, classification and statement of its limits. A company source establishes what that company stated; it does not necessarily provide independent confirmation.

Current relationships (2)

Elastic partners with Google (Alphabet subsidiary)
Partners withCurrent
Elastic said it won a 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year award and is natively integrated into Google Vertex AI as a grounding engine for Gemini.

Source: 2026-04-21 · reviewed 2026-10-02

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Partner award and integration description from Elastic's release; does not establish revenue through Google Cloud Marketplace or any exclusivity.

Elastic Wins 2026 Google Cloud Partner of the Year Award for Marketplace Category for Data Management & AI ↗
Elastic runs its serverless service on Amazon Web Services
Uses technology fromCurrent
Elastic said Elastic Cloud Serverless on AWS now uses new AWS Graviton instances.

Source: 2026-01-20 · reviewed 2026-10-02

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Reported operating

Limits: Covers Elastic's serverless offering on AWS only; does not establish Elastic's total AWS spend or that Elastic Cloud runs only on AWS (it also runs on other clouds).

Elastic Supercharges Performance for Serverless Offering on AWS ↗

Dated or announced (1)

Elastic integrates GPU vector search from NVIDIA
Uses technology fromDated / announced
Elastic said Elasticsearch powered by NVIDIA cuVS can index vector data up to 12x faster than CPU-based approaches.

Source: 2026-04-16 · reviewed 2026-10-02

Evidence: Primary-source statement · Announced; not confirmed operating

Limits: Product integration announcement with a vendor performance claim; does not establish a commercial agreement, revenue, or customer adoption.

Elastic Strengthens Production-Scale AI with GPU-Accelerated Vector Search Integrations ↗
Evidence for this profile

Elastic Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2026 Financial Results ↗
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