Discover sensitive data present in S3 bucket using Amazon Macie

Lab Details

This lab walks through how to set up an Amazon Macie job that allows you to find sensitive data.

You will use a custom data IDr to practice. This means that you will create a regular expression matching the data in the S3 bucket.

Duration: 60 minutes

AWS Region: US East, N. Virginia us-east-1

Introduction

What is Amazon Macie?

Amazon Macie uses machine learning and pattern matching to protect sensitive data stored within S3 buckets.

It can detect a variety of data types, including PII (Personally identifiable information), such as names, addresses and credit card numbers.

It also detects data and gives you full visibility to your S3 buckets. This includes information such as publicly accessible buckets and unencrypted buckets.

Amazon Macie offers a free 30-day trial that allows you to evaluate your bucket.

The discovery of sensitive data in S3 buckets is not included in the free trial.