Using Amazon Macie to Discover PII
Amazon Macie is an advanced data security service provided by AWS, the primary goal of which is to help organizations discover, classify, and protect their sensitive data. Macie uses machine learning and artificial intelligence to automatically identify and categorize sensitive data, such as PII, intellectual property, financial data, and more.
The primary function of Amazon Macie is to automate the process of finding sensitive data stored in your account, specifically in S3 buckets. The Macie service can do this even if the data has been encrypted while stored at rest provided that you grant the service permissions to the key(s) that are protecting the data.
Amazon Macie’s data classification capabilities can be combined with AWS Lake Formation and AWS Glue to automatically redact sensitive data within files stored in Amazon S3 buckets once Amazon Macie has classified it. If your company is subject to regulations such as GDPR in Europe...