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Comment by SadWebDeveloper | Hacker News Reader

Is there an actual use for this? seems like its another useless service from the aws team instead on focusing on improving their interfaces, api's and pricing options.

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Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and related things, mostly. Like alerting you that you just wrote a bunch of private customer data to a world-readable bucket. Or that some random employee is downloading all of your privileged and confidential reports, which could mean their credentials have been compromised. Very very nice if you have data stored in S3 that you really want to keep secure.

DISCLAIMER: work for AWS, have met and talked with the Macie team on several occasions. Opinions on here are my own

Still this seems like a poorly managed enterprise, probably a lazy cto or lack of a ciso, personally m kinda spektic that these services actually offer value in a well managed enterprise, specially if you work under the assumption that everything that it's on the internet or well "the cloud" it's by nature inherently insecure. Let's see how long those "valley people" keep milking the "AI", "Deep learning", "Machine Learning" hype.

As many large enterprise shops migrate to cloud, they need a way to handle data classification and sprawl in their s3 buckets. Magic tools that can label data for them is more useful than nothing, and those big shops wont blink at the pricetag.

If ever you have to deal with large financial institutions, Data Loss Prevention is one of the items that will come up as part of their standard audit on your systems. It can be really hard (and expensive) to put in place and something like this solve it in a flash.

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