Those versed in the intricacies of the Splunk Inc. data-analytics platform are hot tickets on today’s tech-heavy job market. Companies that can’t manage to nab such a precious specialist have alternatives, though. Splunk Cloud on Amazon Web Services Inc. can express deliver customers’ data to Splunk, with built-in compliance via an easy migration, according to Bina Khimani (pictured), global head, partner ecosystem (infrastructure segments) at AWS.

AWS has learned to mitigate the migraine that is migrating data from on-premises to the cloud, she said.”We are acquiring a ton of knowledge that we are building into our migration programs; we want to make sure that our customers are not reinventing the wheel every time.”

AWS’ workload-migration program standardizes migrations of applications like Splunk and Atlassian Corp.’s software tools, she said. “Customers can just point all their data sources to Splunk Cloud instead of Splunk Enterprise (the on-prem version), and it will start pumping data into Splunk Cloud, which is productive from day one.”

Khimani spoke with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the Splunk.conf18 event in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. They discussed the benefits customers realize from running Splunk in the cloud. (* Disclosure below.)

Washing hands of hardware and compliance grease

Khimani likes to joke that Splunk Cloud is lottery proof; if customers’ administrators win the lottery, they don’t have to worry about  Splunk leaving along with them. Splunk cloud is run by Splunk itself; customers need neither administrators nor any hardware to consume it. The experts take a lot of grunt work off customers’ hands, Khimani said. They don’t need to plan for peak performance; they can scale easily and cost-effectively, she said.

Other customers opt for Splunk Cloud for near-instantaneous service-oriented architecture (SOA) compliance, as well as FedRAMP and HIPAA compliance, Khimani said.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the Splunk .conf18 event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Splunk .conf18. Neither Splunk Inc., the event sponsor, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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