AWS Macie

Now let's talk about Macie. 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.

How Macie Works

The process follows this workflow:

1. S3 Buckets: Your PII data will be in your S3 buckets
2. Analyze: Macie will analyze the data and discover what can be classified as PII using machine learning and pattern matching
3. Notify: Macie will notify you through EventBridge of the discoveries
4. Integrations: From EventBridge, you can have integrations into an SNS topic, Lambda functions and so on

Key Features

• Sensitive Data Discovery: More specifically, it will alert you around sensitive data such as personally identifiable information, which is named PII

• Machine Learning & Pattern Matching: Uses advanced techniques to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS

Primary Use Case

Macie in this instance will be used to find the sensitive data in your S3 buckets, and that's the only thing it will do.

Setup Process

• Simple Activation: It's just one click to enable it
• Configuration: You just specify the S3 buckets you want to have and that will be it

That's it for this lecture - very, very short, but that's enough on Macie.