New features for the Splunk App for AWS

The Splunk App for AWS version 4.2.0 adds these new features:

• New dashboard for AWS Inspector data surfaces your findings so that you can review and take action on AWS's recommendations
• New dashboard for Config Rule data helps you audit your compliance with your own organization's best practices
• New Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Dashboard using CloudWatch data
• Improvements to the Topology Dashboard:
  • New Topology layers for Billing, Config Rule, and Inspector data help you reduce cost and easily identify resources out of compliance or with pending AWS Inspector findings.
  • New Recommendation feature alerts you to over-utilized and under-utilized EC2 instances, as well as unused security groups, to help you better manage your AWS environment.
  • New Topology video playback feature shows you how your environment has changed over time
• Updates to all dashboards to use Splunk platform's improved Single Value Visualization feature
• Support for the AWS Seoul region
• Support for using an EC2 IAM Role as the configuration account if you are running this app on your own managed AWS environment.

If you are upgrading from version 4.1.1 see Upgrade guide for the Splunk App for AWS.

If you are migrating from an unsupported version (3.X or earlier), see Migrate from an unsupported version of the Splunk App for AWS in the 4.0.0 version of the Installation and Configuration manual.