Current AWS virtual private cloud infrastructure

You might want to retrieve basic information about your organization's virtual private cloud (VPC) infrastructure when doing the following:

• Managing an Amazon Web Services environment

Prerequisites 

In order to execute this procedure in your environment, the following data, services, or apps are required:

• AWS description data
• Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services

Example

As an administrator, you'd like to have a high level view of every Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) currently configured in AWS, as well as its current availability and Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) range.

NOTE: To optimize the search shown below, you should specify an index and a time range. 

1. Run the following search: 

source="*:vpcs" sourcetype="aws:description"
|dedup id sortby -_time
|table account_id region id cidr_block state
|sort +state

Search explanation

The table provides an explanation of what each part of this search achieves. You can adjust this query based on the specifics of your environment.

Result

Sample results for this search are shown in the table below. It shows the number of unique VPCs associated with the account id, as well as the state, cidr_block, and the id of the eVPC itself. These are all fundamental attributes of a VPC.