Amazon Macie is a managed service, backed by machine learning, that provides an automatic way of detecting, protecting, and classifying data within your S3 buckets. By reviewing and continuously monitoring data object access patterns in S3 and associated CloudTrail log data, Amazon Macie can identify and spot any irregular or suspicious activity that sits outside of what Macie would consider familiar operations, potentially identifying a new security threat.
Some useful features of Amazon Macie include the following:
- The ability to use natural language processing (NLP) techniques to interpret data stored in S3, helping to classify it. To learn more about NLP, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing.
- The ability to spot changes to specific security policies and ACLs that might affect who has access to your S3 bucket.
- The ability to categorize information, including sensitive security data such as PII,&...