Discover sensitive data present in S3 bucket using Amazon Macie

Amazon Macie discovers and protects your sensitive data stored in S3 buckets. First, it identifies sensitive data in your buckets, such as personally identifiable information or personal health information, through jobs. You can schedule these jobs to monitor new data added to your buckets. After finding sensitive data, Macie continually evaluates your buckets and notifies you when they are unencrypted, publicly accessible, or shared with AWS accounts outside your organization.

Macie’s pricing varies based on the amount of data it processes and the number of S3 buckets it monitors.

• Amazon Macie uses pattern matching and machine learning to protect sensitive data stored in S3 buckets.
• It detects a list of data types including PII (Personally Identifiable Information) such as names, addresses, credit card numbers, etc.
• Along with data discovery, it gives you full visibility into your S3 buckets and their information, such as publicly accessible buckets, unencrypted buckets, and buckets shared with other accounts.
• To get started with Amazon Macie, you can use the 30-day free trial for bucket evaluation.
• The free trial does not include the discovery of sensitive data in S3 buckets.