EC2 Discovery Plugin

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

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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-ec2-5.5.3.zip.

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.