Virtual Compute Unit (VCU)
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- Unit
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- Aliases
- VCU; Ingest VCU; Search VCU; ML VCU
- Definition
- Elasticsearch Serverless "charges separately for compute (VCUs with 1GB RAM) and storage (GB)". Three VCU types: Ingest VCUs (indexing into the Search AI Lake), Search VCUs (searches, alerting rules, aggregations, transforms, geospatial queries) and Machine Learning VCUs (inference, ELSER, ML jobs).
- Counting rules
- Priced per VCU per hour. Ingest VCU billing scales to zero with no ingest activity; Search VCUs are not charged per request and do not scale to zero: a baseline set by Search Power and the search-ready dataset size is billed at a reduced rate when idle (billing dimensions docs).
- Applies to products (more)
- Elasticsearch Serverless
- Product category