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Issue facing while installing Splunk Add-on for AWS

Nithiya
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I want to integrate AWS with Splunk. So i have installed splunk free enterprice version and Splunk addon for AWS.

After installation it shows below error.

08-13-2026 12:36:22.288 +0200 ERROR ModularInputs [3356 TcpChannelThread] - Unable to initialize modular input "aws_sqs_based_s3" defined in the app "Splunk_TA_aws": Introspecting scheme=aws_sqs_based_s3: script running failed (exited with code 255)..

08-13-2026 12:26:12.745 +0200 ERROR ExecProcessor [14740 ExecProcessor] - message from ""C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin\Python3.9.exe" "C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\Splunk_TA_aws\bin\aws_inspector.py"" C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin\Python3.9.exe: can't open file 'C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\Splunk_TA_aws\bin\aws_inspector.py': [Errno 2] No such file or directory

Any guidance to resolve this issue will be appreciated!!

Regards,

Nithiya

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