By John Morgan, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Splunk Security
Splunk is incredibly excited to announce a transformative step in its mission to secure the digital world: an expanded strategic partnership between AWS and Splunk to help customers succeed in the agentic era. Together, AWS and Splunk are building a significant foundation of customer adoption, commercial scale, and technical collaboration to create a long-term product-building partnership that goes beyond a single integration.
AI is Changing Security Operations
AWS and Splunk are now at a point where human-driven defense cannot keep pace with automated, AI-driven threats. The companies have spent years building complex, static rule-based systems that require constant manual tuning. The industry has reached a breaking point where “more features” are no longer the answer.
The AWS and Splunk partnership represent a fundamental shift in philosophy. The companies are moving away from manual, feature-heavy workflows toward an agentic operating model for faster security outcomes.
Combining Autonomy with Human Control
This structural evolution is both timely and necessary, as AI continues to escalate the complexity and frequency of modern cyber threats. Customers need adjustable autonomy to provide a flexible spectrum of control, allowing security teams to calibrate the balance between AI-driven automation and human oversight. The core principles of the partnership are designed to address these customer pain points:
- Simple to purchase, deploy in minutes, and easy to operate for the broad market
- Maintaining deep analyst oversight and context
- Enforcing policy-driven, risk-based governance
- Adjusting autonomy levels from recommendation to execution
This partnership will help customers increase speed while maintaining trust, accountability, or control.
A Roadmap to Resilience
AWS and Splunk have been working closely to verify that their shared efforts meet the rigorous demands of enterprise and government environments. The companies are moving quickly, with a clear roadmap designed to provide high-impact value.
“The collaboration between AWS and Splunk is about helping customers strengthen security for their cloud-native environments at the speed of business,” said Rudra Mitra, VP of Security Services at AWS. “By integrating AWS infrastructure with Splunk’s Agentic SOC, we are moving beyond simple integration to create a brand-new defensive paradigm. This powerhouse alliance offers customers the unified, intelligent architecture required to address evolving security challenges effectively.”
This collaboration signals a commitment to redefine how AWS and Splunk collectively strengthen organizational security. The companies invite customers to join them on this journey. Whether they are looking to simplify their SOC operations or leverage the power of agentic AI to improve their security posture, AWS and Splunk want to hear from them.
