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title: "Get credentials from Elastic"
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In order to get credentials from the Elastic environment you need to create an API key within the Elastic Cloud Portal. The easiest way to do this is to navigate to [ela.st/cloud-key](https://ela.st/cloud-key). From there, just create the API and save it for later use in your CloudFormation script.

![AWS Marketplace](/images/API-keys-—-Elastic-Cloud.png)