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Splunk Pushes Enterprise Platform To The Cloud

Splunk has released Splunk Cloud, a service that delivers Splunk Enterprise solutions in the cloud.

Splunk Cloud, powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), includes access to features of the Splunk Enterprise platform including apps, APIs, alerting, and role-based access controls. It supports all core Splunk Enterprise use cases, and integrates with on-premise deployment of Splunk.

Splunk Cloud is available on an annual subscription basis, with plans available from 50 GB/day up through one terabyte per day of machine data, with custom options available outside that range.

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