[shiredude95]

Have you tried elasticcloud? They solve a lot of access problems present in AWS Elasticsearch along with providing the most recent version for deployment.

[Redsquare]

Elasticcloud has terrible security features - they removed IP whitelisting.

[t0mbstone]

They do have user/password authentication though, which is something that barebones ElasticSearch doesn't normally have out of the box by default.