A company has a large amount of data stored in Amazon S3. They suspect that some of the buckets contain unencrypted Personally Identifiable Information (PII). They need an automated way to discover and classify this sensitive data. Which AWS service should be used?

Answer options:

Amazon GuardDuty

AWS Security Hub

Amazon Macie

Amazon Inspector

How to approach this question

Associate 'discover and classify sensitive data in S3' directly with Amazon Macie.

Full Answer

C.Amazon Macie✓ Correct

Amazon Macie

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.

Common mistakes

Confusing Macie (data classification) with GuardDuty (threat detection).

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