Introducing Amazon Macie

Amazon Macie

Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.

Amazon Macie automates the discovery of sensitive data at scale and lowers the cost of protecting your data. Macie automatically provides an inventory of Amazon S3 buckets including a list of unencrypted buckets, publicly accessible buckets, and buckets shared with AWS accounts outside those you have defined in AWS Organizations. Then, Macie applies machine learning and pattern-matching techniques to the buckets you select to identify and alert you to sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII). Example: personal health information, financial information, or credentials

Macie then generates actionable findings to alert you to sensitive data that can be searched, filtered and integrated into your existing workflow or event management systems. So you can quickly respond Macie continually adds to its list of sensitive data types.

Macie’s alerts, or findings, can be searched and filtered in the AWS Management Console and sent to Amazon EventBridge, formerly called Amazon CloudWatch Events, for easy integration with existing workflow or event management systems, or to be used in combination with AWS services, such as AWS Step Functions to take automated remediation actions. This can help you meet regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). You can get started with Amazon Macie by leveraging the 30-day free trial for bucket evaluation.

You can also define your own data types customizing them to your unique business with native multi-account support using AWS Organizations.

With Amazon Macie, you can quickly get started discovering and protecting your sensitive data at scale.

Learn more about Amazon Macie at: https://aws.amazon.com/macie