Manage accounts for the Splunk Add-on for AWS

The Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services (AWS) can only access the data in your AWS account if your account has an IAM AWS Identity Account Management (IAM) role. Read the following sections to do the following:

• Create an IAM role and assign it to your AWS account
• Auto Discovered AWS IAM Role within your Splunk platform instance
• Manage AWS Accounts for Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services
• Manage AWS IAM Roles for Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services

Before you can configure Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise to work with your AWS data, you must set up accounts in Amazon Web Services.