BYOK for existing Elastic Cloud deployments is now GA

This post announces the general availability of BYOK for existing Elastic Cloud deployments. It details the in-place transition mechanism, which replaces instances with encrypted ones while the deployment remains accessible. It highlights that snapshot history does not carry over to the new encrypted repository and that a fresh snapshot is taken automatically. Key considerations for users include ensuring high availability, managing pre-migration snapshots, testing on smaller deployments, and potential data transfer costs. The post also outlines the prerequisites and steps for enabling BYOK via the Elastic Cloud console or API.