Finding Sensitive Data with Amazon Macie
Use machine learning to discover PII stored in S3 buckets.
The Hidden Data Problem
You cannot protect data you do not know exists. Over time, S3 buckets fill with files, and somewhere among them may be customer PII, credentials, or financial records nobody remembers storing.
Amazon Macie solves this by automatically discovering and classifying sensitive data across your S3 storage.
What Macie Does
Macie is a data security service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to find sensitive data in S3.
It identifies PII (personally identifiable information) such as names, addresses, and government IDs, plus financial and credential data — then reports where it lives and how exposed it is.
All lessons in this course
- Block Public Access and Bucket Policies
- Access Points and Object Ownership
- Finding Sensitive Data with Amazon Macie
- Data Lifecycle and Secure Deletion