Experience firsthand how Rajashekar Srinivasan, SME with 9 years of IT experience in Splunk, makes use of AWS Athena and Lambda capabilities to extract actionable insights from rapidly generated data housed within S3 buckets, such as VPC logs, CloudTrail logs, EDR telemetry, and more. These insights are seamlessly integrated into Splunk, offering a pragmatic approach to minimizing ingestion costs while ensuring the inclusion of crucial security data within Splunk's enterprise security suite. A concise walkthrough will be offered, explaining the integration process between Athena and S3 buckets, the execution of Lambda scripts to execute analytics through Athena, and the subsequent ingestion of derived data into Splunk. Furthermore, potential applications of this setup will be explored to highlight its versatility and efficacy in various scenarios.