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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. See the following sections:

  1. Create an IAM role and assign it to your AWS account
  2. Auto Discovered AWS IAM Role within your Splunk platform instance
  3. Manage AWS Accounts for Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services
  4. 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.