Case Study: REI (Recreational Equipment, Inc.) achieves edge protection and real-time threat visibility with Splunk Cloud (Splunk)

REI, Inc. Gains Edge Protection with Splunk Cloud and AWS

REI, Inc., the national specialty outdoor retailer, needed to extend security to the edge as it migrated applications to AWS. The technology organization lacked a centralized investigation workflow for AWS—requiring teams to log into multiple accounts and manually aggregate data—and needed a secure ingress path and standardized security model while adopting DevSecOps.

REI deployed Splunk Cloud with Splunk’s AWS add-ons alongside Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Shield and AWS WAF to centralize VPC flow, ALB and GuardDuty logs for correlation, alerting and visualization. The integrated solution provided real‑time visibility and threat intelligence, hardened edge protection for public endpoints, simplified investigations, accelerated DevSecOps adoption, and reduced time and staffing overhead.

REI

David Bell

Manager, Infrastructure and Cloud Services