# Macie

* Macie is a **fully managed data security and data privacy service** that uses machine learning and pattern matching to help you **discover, monitor, and protect your sensitive data in AWS**.\\

* Macie **automates the discovery of sensitive data, such as personally identifiable information (PII) and financial data**, to provide you with a **better understanding of the data that your organization stores in S3**.\\

* Macie also **provides you with an inventory of your S3 buckets**, and it **automatically evaluates and monitors those buckets for security and access control**.

* If Macie **detects sensitive data or potential issues** with the security or privacy of your data, it **creates detailed findings for you to review and remediate as necessary**.\\

* You can **review and analyse these findings directly in Macie**, or **monitor and process them by using other services, applications, and systems**.
