Case Study: Autodesk achieves CapEx savings and up to 80% faster security resolution with Splunk on AWS

Autodesk Saves Time and CapEx Costs with Splunk on AWS

Autodesk, a global leader in design, visualization and simulation software for industries from manufacturing to media, needed better business, operational and security visibility across multiple divisions and hundreds of AWS accounts. At the same time the company wanted to avoid the time, capital and labor costs of a large on‑premises infrastructure refresh while ensuring security and compliance in the cloud.

Autodesk deployed Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security and the Splunk App for AWS on Amazon Web Services, using CloudFormation templates and Ansible to provision environments in under 30 minutes. The move—completed in weeks—saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in CapEx and labor, reduced security‑issue isolation time by up to 80%, cut ongoing ops to less than 0.1 FTE for a 1TB/day deployment, and delivered real‑time product, usage and AWS account visibility without a separate SIEM.

Autodesk

Alan Williams

Autodesk Consumer Group (ACG), Autodesk, Inc.