This blog post will walk you through setting up a Splunk environment on AWS for lab purposes using Splunk Enterprise Free 60-day trail. After 60 days you can convert to a perpetual free license or purchase a Splunk Enterprise license to continue using the expanded functionality designed for enterprise-scale deployments. There is an indexing limit of 500 MB/Day which will be more than enough for our demo purposes. There are multiple ways to accomplish this - using AWS Console, CLI or using CloudFormation....