// infrastructure / aws
Graylog on AWS
If your workloads run on AWS, keeping log infrastructure in the same region avoids data transfer surprises and lets you use the IAM, VPC and backup tooling you already govern.
We deploy Graylog into your AWS account on EC2, typically across multiple Availability Zones within one region. Graylog nodes sit behind a Network Load Balancer, which supports both TCP and UDP listeners for syslog and GELF traffic.
Managed search services are tempting, but compatibility with Graylog depends on the Graylog version and the service's supported API surface. We verify against current Graylog documentation before recommending one. In most cases, Graylog Data Node or self-managed OpenSearch on EC2 is more predictable.
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How a Graylog environment on AWS is typically built
Compute
EC2 instance families selected per role: memory for search nodes, balanced compute for Graylog nodes, burstable instances avoided for sustained ingest.
Storage
EBS gp3 with IOPS and throughput provisioned independently of size — sized from real indexing load, not defaults.
Networking
Private subnets, Security Groups per tier, VPC endpoints where they reduce NAT costs.
Load balancing
Network Load Balancer for TCP/UDP inputs; Application Load Balancer or NLB with TLS for the web interface and API.
Backups
Snapshots to S3 via the backend's S3 repository support where available, MongoDB backups to encrypted S3 buckets, lifecycle policies for retention.
Automation
Terraform modules in your repository, Ansible or cloud-init for configuration, tags for cost allocation.
AWS is a trademark of its respective owner. We are an independent provider and not an official AWS partner. Provider capabilities change; we verify current features and pricing during design.
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Comparing providers?
Hetzner
Cost-efficient cloud servers and dedicated hardware in EU and US locations. A strong fit for high-volume, storage-heavy logging.
graylog-on-hetzner Public cloudAWS
Run Graylog inside your AWS accounts, next to the workloads it collects from, with VPC-private components and S3-based backups.
graylog-on-aws Public cloudGoogle Cloud
Graylog on Compute Engine with Persistent Disk or Hyperdisk, passthrough load balancing and Cloud Storage backups.
graylog-on-google-cloud Public cloudAzure
Graylog on Azure VMs with Managed Disks, Azure Load Balancer and Blob Storage backups, integrated into your existing subscriptions.
graylog-on-azureOVHcloud
Bare-metal and public cloud options in European and other regions, with private networking between servers.
Other VPS & dedicated
Any provider that gives us modern Linux, predictable disks and private networking.
Your own servers
Bare metal or virtualised infrastructure in your data center, including restricted networks.
Planning Graylog on AWS?
Send us your ingest volume and retention requirements and we will outline a topology and sizing for AWS.