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docs: clarify private link traffic imbalance for all node types including APM (#5801)
## Summary Clarify the importance of ensuring user's VPC endpoint is in all availability zones supported by Elastic Cloud ## Motivation Per this [internal ticket](elastic/sdh-control-plane#11613 (comment)) and [this ticket](elastic/support-tech-lead#1773) 🤖 Partially Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) --------- Co-authored-by: Alex Chalkias <34575586+alxchalkias@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: shainaraskas <58563081+shainaraskas@users.noreply.github.com>
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### Before you begin [ec-aws-vpc-overlapping-azs]
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Before you begin, you should ensure your VPC endpoint is in all availability zones supported by {{ecloud}} for the region and resource type. Placing your VPC endpoint in all supported {{ecloud}} availability zones for the region improves throughput and resiliency when connecting over PrivateLink.
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Before you begin, you should ensure your VPC endpoint is in all availability zones (AZ) supported by {{ecloud}} for the region and resource type. Placing your VPC endpoint in all supported {{ecloud}} availability zones for the region improves throughput and resiliency when connecting over PrivateLink.
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For {{ech}} deployments, if your VPC is not in all supported availability zones, traffic can become imbalanced, saturating some coordinating nodes while underutilizing others, which might impact performance.
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For {{ech}} deployments, if your VPC is not in all supported availability zones (AZ), the traffic can become imbalanced between the clients and the nodes of a deployment that are receiving traffic from the clients, including {{es}} coordinating nodes, APM instances, and Integrations Server instances. The unbalanced traffic can saturate some nodes or underutilize others, which might impact performance.
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You can find the zone name to zone ID mapping with AWS CLI:
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