Cloud Solutions

Cloud Solutions Real-time Visibility and Analytics from the Cloud

Splunk's cloud solutions let you search, monitor and analyze any machine-generated data from wherever it's generated. With software and SaaS deployment options, Splunk's cloud solutions enable you to leverage cloud the way you want to.

• Use Splunk Cloud to gain powerful insights from machine data with zero operational overhead
• Deploy Splunk Enterprise software in the cloud to gain real-time visibility into applications and infrastructure deployed in the cloud or anywhere else
• Instantiate a pre-configured Splunk Enterprise or Hunk instance within the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (",EC2",) through Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)
• Gain security and operational visibility into your AWS account with Splunk Apps for AWS
• Use Hunk with Amazon EMR to interactively explore data stored in HDFS and Amazon S3

Splunk Cloud

Splunk Cloud is an AWS-based service (currently available in the USA and Canada) that delivers the full functionality of Splunk Enterprise with all the benefits of a cloud service. Learn more »,

Splunk Enterprise in AWS

Our flagship Splunk Enterprise software is perfect for deployment in AWS. Easily install and deploy across any EC2 instance and bring Operational Intelligence without the wait to internally provision any hardware. Learn more »,

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

Accelerate your Splunk deployment with Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). AMIs provide a template-based deployment with preconfigured Splunk software, an operating system and AWS infrastructure, in just a few clicks.

AMIs are currently available for Splunk Enterprise and Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores. Learn more »,

Splunk Apps for AWS

Splunk Apps for AWS prepackage searches, reports and dashboards delivering powerful insights into your AWS environment. Analyze data from AWS services such as CloudTrail, Config, Cloudwatch, Billing, and S3. Learn more »,

Hunk Integration with Amazon Elastic MapReduce

Hunk analytics is now integrated with Amazon EMR. Pay for Hunk by the hour ($0.75 per EMR instance per hour) or bring your own license to analyze data stored in HDFS or Amazon S3. Learn more »,

Splunk Enterprise in AWS

Splunk Enterprise is perfect for deploying in AWS. It's self-contained and can be easily deployed on any EC2 instance. Splunk Enterprise also scales horizontally, making it ideal for an AWS deployment.

Collect and index machine-generated data from AWS or virtually any other source or location in real time. This includes data streaming from packaged and custom applications, application servers, web servers, AWS CloudTrail, databases, networks, virtual machines, telecoms equipment, operating systems, sensors and much more. Just point Splunk Enterprise at your data, and it immediately starts collecting and indexing&mdash,so you can start searching and analyzing.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)

Fast track your Splunk software deployment with the Splunk Enterprise AMI and Hunk AMI. Splunk AMIs bundle an AWS EC2 server, Splunk software and an operating system to get you up and running in just a few clicks.

Splunk Enterprise AMI

The Splunk Enterprise AMI offers the latest version of Splunk Enterprise preconfigured for use in AWS. You can easily deploy the AMI on an EC2 instance of your choice and pay for infrastructure on an hourly basis, providing a rapid way to get going with Splunk Enterprise.

You can quickly provision a Splunk Enterprise AMI on the AWS Marketplace.

Hunk AMI

The Hunk AMI offers the latest version of Hunk preconfigured for use in AWS. You can easily deploy the AMI on an EC2 instance of your choice and pay for infrastructure on an hourly basis. The Hunk AMI accelerates the speed at which you can deploy Hunk: Splunk Analytics for Hadoop and NoSQL Data Stores, within AWS.

Hunk goes beyond typical data analysis methods and gives you the power to explore, analyze and visualize data, all from one integrated platform that you can use in minutes, not months. Using Hunk, you can experience dramatic improvements in the speed and simplicity of getting insights from big data.

Provisioning a Hunk AMI on the AWS Marketplace only takes a few clicks.

Splunk Apps for AWS

Splunk Apps for AWS provide you with a pre-built knowledge base of dashboards and reports so you can gain instant insights from your AWS data. These Apps can be easily added to your Splunk deployment from our app store. Apps for AWS include the Splunk App for AWS and the Hunk App for AWS Elastic Load Balancing.

Splunk App for AWS offers in-depth visibility into your AWS account across user activity, resource configuration and billing by integrating with AWS CloudTrail, Config and Billing.

Using the app to analyze data from AWS CloudTrail, you can gather important insights into security-related activity such as unauthorized access attempts, simultaneous logins from geographically disparate locations and frequent changes to access control privileges. With continuous monitoring and a full audit trail of user activity, the App lets you easily ensure security and compliance within your AWS account.

Monitor and track user logins across geographic locations to help secure your AWS account.

Using the app to analyze data from AWS Config, you can easily gain real-time and historical visibility into the configuration of AWS resources and how these resources relate to one another. You can also correlate data from AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail in order to gain a comprehensive view into security and compliance in your AWS account.

The billing related dashboards and reports of the Splunk App for AWS let you monitor your AWS spend and optimize resource utilization. You can conduct in-depth analyses of usage patterns and cost by analyzing utilization across on-demand, reserved and spot instances. In addition, built-in visualizations of month-over-month AWS costs enable you to quickly identify and resolve unusual trends or unplanned spending.

Plan for capacity and identify cost trends in your AWS account.

The Hunk App for AWS Elastic Load Balancing provides visibility and insight into the health of your AWS ELB service. You can quickly analyze traffic trends over time and geography, visualize request capacity, inspect processing latency and identify and troubleshoot application status issues.

The Hunk App for AWS Elastic Load Balancing is a Hunk-only app and requires an AWS EMR cluster to process ELB logs.

Gain real-time insights into the health of your AWS ELB service.

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