In late April 2026, Elastic announced a series of AI-focused product upgrades, deep Google Distributed Cloud air-gapped integrations, and new MCP Apps, alongside preparations to present its platform at the GEOINT Symposium 2026 in Colorado. Together, these moves push Elastic deeper into regulated, air-gapped, and observability-heavy deployments, positioning its search and security stack as critical infrastructure for data-sovereign, AI-driven workloads. Next, we’ll examine how Elastic’s...