To configure a self storage location in your AWS or GCP environment, you must have sufficient permissions to create Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage buckets and apply policies or permissions to them. If you are not the AWS or GCP administrator for your organization, make sure that you can work with the appropriate administrator during this process to create the new bucket.

After you move the data to your self storage location, Splunk Cloud Platform does not maintain a copy of this data and does not provide access to manage the data in your self storage environment, so make sure that you understand how to maintain and monitor your data before moving it to the bucket.

If you intend to restore your data, you also need access to a Splunk Enterprise instance.