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Can Macie be leveraged to find S3 file type distribution?

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My S3 environment has several thousand buckets, spread across multiple lines of business. Does there exist a way to leverage Macie to catalog (and aggregate) file type distribution across the total S3 environment? Looking for a semi-easy way to determine how much of our content Macie is not able to scan due to file type incompatibilities. Looking for something more granular than classifiable/not classifiable.

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Security, Identity, & Compliance
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Amazon Macie
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asked a year ago204 views
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Another method will be to leverage a sensitive data discovery job in Macie. This job detects and reports all sensitive data in all s3 buckets in your account. When configuring the data discovery job, you can define the type of data type to a sensitive job. By doing this, Macie is able to detect both structured and unstructured data types.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/macie/latest/user/data-classification.html

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answered a year ago
  • Brian
    a year ago

    While this would be good (though costly) where there is responsive content, I was hoping for a way to get wholistic inventory, including items that macie cannot classify. Trying to figure out the (every growing number of) classification/discovery gaps in my S3 environment.

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Probably the easiest way is to run S3 inventory report and analyse it with Athena

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/storage-inventory.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/storage-inventory-athena-query.html

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answered a year ago
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