Elastic announced an expanded strategic partnership with Microsoft. From directly within the Microsoft Azure portal, customers can now find, deploy, and manage Elasticsearch and accelerate their time to value with Elastic Cloud solutions. Customers automatically benefit from the latest innovations from Elastic, with security, maintenance, and support included. Elastic Enterprise Search, Observability, and Security are the first platform to natively integrate three solutions on a single stack, directly in the Microsoft. Customers benefit from marketplace subscription management and consolidated billing through Azure.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2021/05/27/elastic-microsoft/