Which service finds personal data in S3 buckets?
Why B is the answer
Amazon Macie
Macie discovers sensitive data.
In detail
- Macie finds personal data in S3.
- Macie focuses on S3.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
Before opening a bucket to analysts, a team runs Macie and finds card numbers.
See it in different ways
flowchart TD A["Who called the API?"] --> B["AWS CloudTrail"] C["Is there personal data in S3?"] --> D["Amazon Macie"] E["Are resources compliant?"] --> F["AWS Config"]
mindmap
root((Data security))
Identity
IAM roles
Secrets Manager
Fine-grained access
Lake Formation
Column grants
Encryption
SSE-KMS
Discovery
Macie
Audit
CloudTrailflowchart LR S0["Choose buckets"] --> S1["Macie job"] --> S2["Findings"]
Key point: Macie finds sensitive data.
Why the other options are wrong
- A. Amazon EMR
- EMR processes data.
- C. Amazon Athena
- Athena queries data.
- D. AWS Glue DataBrew
- DataBrew cleans data.