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How to Create and Configure Amazon Macie

To Create and Configure Amazon Macie

Introduction:

Amazon Macie is a perfectly examined data security and data privacy service that employs machine learning and pattern matching to classify and protect sensitive data in AWS. While organizations control increasing volumes of data, classifying and shielding the sensitive data at scale can become more complex, valuable, and time-consuming which automates the discovery of sensitive data at scale and reduces the cost of protecting the data. This tutorial will cover about to Create and Configure Amazon Macie.

Procedure:

Switch your AWS console and login your account Then click services and search Amazon Macie and click the tab This is the front page of Macie dashboard. Then Click Get started If you want to create Macie job you need to enable the Macie This is the summary page of Amazon Macie. Create job using file form the S3 bucket. This is my S3 bucket click the bucket Here you can see the CSV format file. I am using this file to create Macie job. If you don’t have any file of S3 bucket click upload to add the file to S3 bucket from your local In that CSV I have stored following components Now back Macie dashboard and click create job

Select your S3 Bucket and click next and review you S3 bucket and click next Select your sensitive data discovery options here I am select one-time job. Because of it was my demo then click next Here you can customize your data identifiers for that click manage custom identifiers then click create and enter the identifier name and enter the regular expression finally click submit Back to Macie console and select identifier name and click next then enter the job name and type description then click next Scroll down and click Submit

Here you can see the job is created and the status is also completed Click show findings after that you can see your identifiers. Select the identifier and click action and click export Json then you can see the status of identifier. With this method, to create and configure the Amazon Macie is comes to end.

Tag : Amazon-Macie Amazon Web Services (AWS)
FAQ
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How can I get started with Amazon Macie?
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Amazon Macie can be enabled with one-click in the AWS Management Console or a single API call. Macie provides multi-account support using AWS Organizations, so you can enable Macie across all of your accounts with a few clicks.
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Is there a free trial?
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Yes, there is a 30-day free trial. Each new account to Amazon Macie can try the service for 30-days at no cost. The free trial includes 30-days of Amazon S3 bucket inventory and bucket-level security and access control assessment at no cost. The AWS Management Console provides a cost estimate of the service based on your total number of buckets in the account.
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How much does Amazon Macie cost?
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With Amazon Macie, you are charged based on two dimensions, the number of Amazon S3 buckets in your account per month and the amount of data processed for sensitive data discovery in a given month.
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What are the key benefits of Amazon Macie?
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Amazon Macie uses machine learning and pattern matching to cost-efficiently discover sensitive data at scale. Macie automatically detects a large and growing list of sensitive data types, including personally identifiable information (PII) such as names, addresses, and credit card numbers. It also gives you constant visibility of the data security and data privacy of your data stored in Amazon S3.
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What is Amazon Macie?
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Amazon Macie is a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover and protect your sensitive data in AWS.