1. First you need to create a AWS account (https://aws.amazon.com/free )
   • This is Completly Free and will cost you nothing.
   • Once Completed, Login as Root User to avoid Restrictions.

• Search " Lightsail " and select it.
• Once there select "Create Instance"

• Seletct " Linux/Unix " for platform
• Under blueprint, Select " Operating System (OS) only "
• Select " Amazon Linux 2 "
• Select "$12" option for the size
• Then give your instance a name

2. Create a Splunk Account
   • This comes with a Free Trial also. (https://www.splunk.com/en_us/download.html)
   • Download Splunk Enterpise
   • Select "Linux" and download the ".tgz " file.

• Save The "wget" info. Yow will need it shortley.

1. Go back to your Lightsail Insance
   • Select "Connect using SSH" and a screen will display.

Enter these commmands in order. I will Display images to show how it looks in the end.

1. ls
2. sudo su
3. passwd
   • create a password you will remember and add to notes.

4. useradd splunk
5. mkdir /opt/splunk
6. cd /opt/
7. Next you're gonna use the "wget" download from earlier to insatll Splunk.
   • For Exapmle: wget -O splunk-9.4.2-e9664af3d956-linux-amd64.tgz "https://download.splunk.com/products/splunk/releases/9.4.2/linux/splunk-9.4.2-e9664af3d956-linux-amd64.tgz"

8. Once the download is finished, you're gonna use a command to automatically accept the license.
9. $sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start --accept-license

Something Like this will show after accepting the license. Please Save it. The Splunk web interface is at http://ip-172-26-8-103.ec2.internal:8000

3. Take your public IP Address and edit it into the url given by the linux server.
   • For Example: http://ip-172-26-8-103.ec2.internal:8000 -> http://54.172.74.63:8000
   • This gives your splunk enterprise instance.
   • Login using your created credinentiasl from earlier

CONGRATS YOU HAVE DEPLOYED SPLUNK ENTERPRISE INSTANCE ON AWS