# SearchBlox for Elastic Cloud

SearchBlox for Elastic Cloud allows you to deploy SearchBlox Enterprise Search anywhere and use the Elastic Cloud as a data store for search.

SearchBlox allows you to rapidly deploy high-performance search-based applications.

  • Search data from 326+ data sources within internal and external connectors

  • Web Admin Console with User Management (SearchBlox Realm/LDAP-AD/Okta)

  • Support for 36 languages and 33+ document formats

  • REST API for programmatic crawling/indexing/administration/search/queries

  • Collection, Document, and Field Level Security with [Encryption](🔗)

  • Embed Search Results widget anywhere

  • Available for on-premise or cloud deployment

Once you deploy SearchBlox on Windows, CentOS/RHEL or Ubuntu, or Amazon Linux 2, update your elasticsearch URL with the user credentials for SearchBlox to use Elastic Cloud.

SearchBlox will also work with the latest Elasticsearch **v7.17** on **Elastic Cloud**

Create a new deployment for Elasticsearch v7.17 on Elastic Cloud and copy the **Elasticsearch endpoint**, username and password.

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Update the elasticsearch information on your SearchBlox installation and restart SearchBlox service as shown in the following.

  1. Edit the file <SEARCHBLOX_INSTALLATION_PATH>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/searchblox.yml to update the elasticsearch url endpoint, username and password. Here we provided a sample searchblox.yml configuration below: `searchblox.deployment.type:<Empty>` `searchblox.elasticsearch.host: xxxxx-azure.es.eastus2.azure.elastic-cloud.com` `searchblox.elasticsearch.port: 9243` `searchblox.elasticsearch.basic.username: elastic` `searchblox.elasticsearch.basic.password: Ue7Dl5RElANBRgqHviMRdXXX`

  2. Restart the SearchBlox service and wait for 30 seconds to access your [SearchBlox Admin Console](🔗).