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# AWS VPC Flow

Scanner supports AWS VPC flow logs, which contain data about the IP traffic moving between your network interfaces in AWS. In order for Scanner to see these logs, you can configure VPC to publish these logs to an S3 bucket that Scanner is linked to.

## Collect logs in S3

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### Publish flow logs to S3

Follow the AWS documentation to configure VPC to write flow logs to an S3 bucket. For the best results, we recommend selecting the **Parquet** log file format.

See: [Publish flow logs to Amazon S3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs-s3.html).
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## Create an Index Rule

Once VPC flow logs are landing in your S3 bucket, [Create an Index Rule](/scanner/using-scanner-complete-feature-reference/data-ingestion/create-an-index-rule.md) to ingest the logs via Scanner Collect for fast search and detections.


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