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Describing an alternative to EDOT Cloud Forwarder for AWS: collecting logs using awss3receiver. EDOT Cloud Forwarder works only for Serverless Elastic projects. The manual setup using awss3receiver doesn't have that restriction.

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@mykola-elastic mykola-elastic added documentation Improvements or additions to documentation. Applied to PRs that modify *.md files. enhancement New feature or request Team:Obs-InfraObs Observability Infrastructure Monitoring team [elastic/obs-infraobs-integrations] Integration:aws_elb_otel AWS ELB OpenTelemetry Assets labels Nov 3, 2025
@mykola-elastic mykola-elastic changed the title [aws_elb_otel] [docs] add section "alternative setup using awss3receiver" [aws_elb_otel] [aws_vpcflow_otel] [docs] add section "alternative setup using awss3receiver" Nov 3, 2025
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### Config example

For details on configuration refer to corresponding docs: [awss3receiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/awss3receiver), [awslogsencodingextension](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/extension/encoding/awslogsencodingextension), [elasticsearchexporter](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/elasticsearchexporter)
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### Config example

For details on configuration refer to corresponding docs: [awss3receiver](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/awss3receiver), [awslogsencodingextension](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/extension/encoding/awslogsencodingextension), [elasticsearchexporter](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/exporter/elasticsearchexporter)
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same note regarding adding anchors to the links here

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