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18. Setting up a Splunk Environment with AWS

Deep Mehta1  
(1)
Printserv, Mumbai, India
 

In this chapter, you learn about AWS deployment using Splunk.

This chapter covers the following topics.

  • Amazon Web Services

  • Configuring a Splunk instance on EC2

  • Deploying multisite index clustering

  • Deploying search head clustering

  • Deploying a configuration file using a cluster master

  • Monitoring a distributed environment

Amazon Web Services

Amazon launched its cloud computing service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), in 2006. Cloud computing can be broken down into infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS).

IaaS is a type of ...

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