Factual Product Summary
Amazon Macie from Amazon Web Services focuses on cloud data discovery and sensitive data detection. It is sensitive-data discovery service used for assessing sensitive information stored in supported Amazon S3 data. Capabilities - Amazon S3 sensitive-data assessment: Focuses the documented sensitive-data discovery workflow on supported Amazon S3 data. - S3 data protection findings: Connects sensitive-data discovery with findings relevant to how the assessed S3 data is protected. - Sensitive data discovery: Finds protected information so teams can establish where it is stored or used. - Data access visibility: Shows who or what can access the covered data assets. - Data protection policy management: Gives teams a way to administer data protection rules across the product's supported scope. Use and operational context Amazon Macie is relevant to AWS teams overseeing the protection of S3 data when the requirement centers on assessing sensitive information stored in supported Amazon S3 data. Scope the evaluation around the functions listed above and the assets or workflows that need coverage. A useful trial should use representative business conditions so the team can assess the quality of the results and the effort needed to act on them. Deployment and evaluation Before adoption, review bucket scope, discovery-job configuration, data identifiers and who investigates a sensitive-data finding. Assign an owner for administration, document required permissions and identify how the product or service will fit the existing operating process. Buyer questions - What is the main purpose? Amazon Macie focuses on assessing sensitive information stored in supported Amazon S3 data. - What should a proof of concept establish? Test the listed capabilities against representative assets and workflows, record useful results and unresolved gaps, and confirm who handles follow-up work. - What should be confirmed before purchase? Ask the vendor which edition or service scope includes the required features, which dependencies must be configured and what licensing or contract terms apply. Pricing has not been verified for this catalog.
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About the Vendor
Amazon Web Services offers a portfolio covering assessing cloud exposure or protecting running workloads, identifying and prioritizing security weaknesses, understanding sensitive information and controlling its exposure, protecting availability during malicious traffic floods and applying security rules to application requests. The entries in this catalog include Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, AWS Security Hub, AWS Shield and AWS WAF. Amazon GuardDuty focuses on cloud threat detection and suspicious activity monitoring. Amazon Inspector focuses on cloud workload vulnerability assessment. Amazon Macie focuses on cloud data discovery and sensitive data detection. When reviewing Amazon Web Services, compare the named products individually: a platform family, a specific module and a managed service can have different scopes and purchasing requirements. Selection should account for enabled protection plans, permissions, finding triage and the downstream response workflow. Portfolio detail - Amazon GuardDuty: the catalog lists AWS account threat findings, Cloud security posture management, Vulnerability prioritization. - Amazon Inspector: the catalog lists EC2 workload assessment, ECR container image assessment, Lambda vulnerability assessment. - Amazon Macie: the catalog lists Amazon S3 sensitive-data assessment, S3 data protection findings, Sensitive data discovery. - AWS Security Hub: the catalog lists AWS security findings aggregation, Cloud security posture management, Vulnerability prioritization. - AWS Shield: the catalog lists AWS DDoS protection scope, DDoS attack detection, Network-layer protection. - AWS WAF: the catalog lists Web ACL administration, Managed rule groups, Web request filtering. For procurement, map each required capability to a named offering and confirm the edition, dependencies and delivery responsibility with the vendor. Product-level entries below provide the operational context and evaluation questions for that comparison.