A company is using Amazon S3 to store sensitive customer data. The security team wants to be alerted immediately if any S3 buckets are accidentally made public. <br/><br/>Which AWS service provides the MOST direct way to monitor and alert on public S3 buckets?

Answer options:

Amazon Macie

AWS IAM Access Analyzer

AWS CloudTrail

Amazon Inspector

How to approach this question

Identify the service that analyzes resource policies for external access.

Full Answer

B.AWS IAM Access Analyzer✓ Correct

AWS IAM Access Analyzer helps you identify the resources in your organization and accounts, such as Amazon S3 buckets or IAM roles, that are shared with an external entity. It alerts you if a bucket is made public.

Common mistakes

Choosing Macie. While Macie works, Access Analyzer is the native, free tool specifically for policy analysis.

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