Splunk Enterprise and cloudwatch log data- How do I get data into an index?

[jcorcoran508]

I inherited splunk enterprise installed on ec2 instances.     We have cloud watch sending log data to our splunk -   how do I get that data feed into an index. (not indexers)

so confused.

[richgalloway]

Indexers do indexing.  The only way to get data into an index is by sending it to an indexer.

What problem are trying to solve?