Learning Splunk - Setting Up an AWS Environment

This video tutorial guides viewers through setting up an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment for course examples, focusing on creating a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), launching an EC2 instance, configuring security and storage, and preparing the system for Splunk installation. The tutorial emphasizes using AWS for consistency and ease of data generation for Splunk searches, while also providing flexibility for other environments. Key steps include creating a VPC with a public subnet, launching an Ubuntu-based EC2 instance, configuring security groups, and setting up storage using Linux's logical volume manager.

Explain the process of creating a logical volume for Splunk data.

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What file system is recommended for storing Splunk data?

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What is the significance of modifying the file system table (fstab)?

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Describe the final steps to confirm that the storage is correctly mounted.

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