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title: AWS Log forwarding restrictions
source: https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/logs/troubleshooting/aws-log-integration-issues/log-forwarding-restrictions
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New Relic has the following restrictions with AWS integration for log forwarding when ingesting logs via S3 or Firehose:

### For ingesting AWS logs from S3 [#s3-restrictions]

-   The log file size should be less that 80 MB.
-   The size of a single log line should be less than 8 MB.
-   Log lines between 1mb and 8mb will be split into multiple messages and forwarded to New Relic.
-   New Relic currently doesn't support client JSON or log line parsing.
-   New Relic currently supports only `Gzip` and `Bzip2` compression formats for log files. It processes files in other compressed formats as uncompressed files.

### For ingesting logs from CloudWatch [#cloudwatch-restrictions]

-   New Relic currently doesn't support client JSON or log line parsing.
-   New Relic currently supports only [Lambda layers](https://github.com/newrelic/newrelic-lambda-layers) for parsing logic.