---
title: Other deployment operations in Elastic Cloud
description: Restart an Elasticsearch resource. DEPLOYMENT_ID  The ID of the deployment returned in the response for POST /deployments RESOURCE_KIND  Type of the deployment...
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/cloud/cloud-hosted/ec-api-deployment-other
products:
  - Elastic Cloud Hosted
---

# Other deployment operations in Elastic Cloud


## Restart an Elasticsearch resource

Restart an Elasticsearch resource.
```sh
curl -XPOST \
-H "Authorization: ApiKey $EC_API_KEY" \
"https://api.elastic-cloud.com/api/v1/deployments/$DEPLOYMENT_ID/$RESOURCE_KIND/$REF_ID/_restart"
```

`DEPLOYMENT_ID`  The ID of the deployment returned in the response for `POST /deployments`
`RESOURCE_KIND`  Type of the deployment resource. Depending on the version to be deployed, it can be `elasticsearch`, `kibana`, `apm`, `integrations_server`, `appsearch` or `enterprise_search`
`REF_ID`  Name given to each resource type in the attribute `ref_id`. `main-elasticsearch` in the preceding example

## Shut down a Elasticsearch Service deployment

Shut down a Elasticsearch Service deployment.
```sh
curl -XPOST \
-H "Authorization: ApiKey $EC_API_KEY" \
"https://api.elastic-cloud.com/api/v1/deployments/$DEPLOYMENT_ID/_shutdown"
```

`DEPLOYMENT_ID`  The ID of the deployment returned in the response for `POST /deployments`