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Amazon Macie

Explore how Amazon Macie enhances AWS security by monitoring S3 buckets with machine learning models. Understand how it detects sensitive data and potential risks, generates findings, and triggers automated responses to protect your cloud storage.

Amazon Macie is a security service provided by Amazon that monitors data using machine learning models to detect risks and provides automated protection against those risks. Macie monitors our account’s S3 buckets, evaluates their access level and potential security risks, and checks for sensitive data in S3 objects.

When Macie detects a potential risk, e.g., finds a bucket that is publically accessible or detects sensitive data in an object, it generates a  ...