Support cross account log collection through IAM roles

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receiver/awscloudwatch

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I want to do cross account observability using cross account iam roles.

Describe the solution you'd like

We can support cross account collection of logs through cross account IAM roles by using STS assumeRole option. On the implementation side this can be done by creating a different logsReceiver instance for each roleARN.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Although AWS supports cross account observability but the setup has following problems:

1. Requires monitoring account to know all the source accounts at infra level. To add new source account one would need to do setup at infra level again, whereas for cross account roles you can do so just by creating relevant role in source account.
2. Traces & events are paid through cross account observability, hence difficult to have a system with uniform cross account setup.

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