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AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS

You're reading from   AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS Learn to secure your data, servers, and applications with AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789134513
Length 118 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Amazon Macie


Amazon Macie is the newest security service powered by Artificial Intelligence launched by AWS that uses machine learning to identify, categorize, and secure your sensitive data that is stored in S3 buckets. It continuously monitors your data and sends alerts when it detects an anomaly in the usage or access patterns. It uses templated Lambda functions for either sending alerts, revoking unauthorized access, or resetting password policies upon detecting suspicious behavior.

As of now, Amazon Macie supports S3 and CloudTrail with the support for more services such as EC2, DynamoDB, RDS, Glue is planned in the near future. Let us look at two important features of Amazon Macie.

Data Discovery and Classification

Amazon Macie allows you to discover and classify sensitive data along with analyzing usage patterns and user behavior. It continuously monitors newly added data to your existing data storage.

It uses artificial intelligence to understand and analyze usage patterns of existing...

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