AWS Macie
Feb 22, 2021
This is part of a blog series giving a high level overview of the different services examined on the AWS Solution Architect Associate exam, to view the whole series click here.
Macie Summary
- Macie is a data security/privacy service.
- Uses machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) to discover, classify and protect sensitive information stored in S3.
- Can automatically discover Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in your data and can alert you once identified.
- Can produce dashboards, reporting and alerts
Benefits of Macie
- Cost efficiently discovers sensitive data at scale
- Constant visibility of data security/privacy through alerts and dashboards
- Can use used across AWS accounts through AWS Organisations.
- Can help you meet regulatory compliance
- Great for PCI-DSS(credit card payments) and preventing theft
