A Five Minute Overview of AWS Macie

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AWS Macie is a managed service capable of scanning your stored information for sensitive information which may be exposed to outside parties. Macie uses machine learning to scan your data, classify it and protect the sensitive data. This sounds like a great tool to have in your AWS security program. As of April 2019, Macie only supports analyzing data stored in S3.