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Reduce Amazon Macie costs with these tips

Amazon Macie cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon Macie costs with these tips

Reduced Schedule

Placing Amazon Macie on a less frequently run schedule will decrease your costs. This is because the pricing of Amazon Macie is based on the volume of data scanned. There is a tiered approach, but the price is still $1 per GB scanned until 50TB.

Optimize File Formats

If you use optimized file formats like Apache Parquet or Avro, there is less data transfer needed to Amazon Macie. In addition, it can scan .zip files so it might be worthwhile to zip your files before running an Amazon Macie job.

Consider Alternatives

Feature wise Amazon Macie is quite expensive for the features it provides as a DLP tool. You can consider alternative solutions like Open Raven or DataGuard. These tools also tend to give you better finding information on the PI that it did detect.

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About Amazon Macie

About Amazon Macie

Use Amazon Macie to detect and secure sensitive data at scale. Benefit from machine learning, data discovery, risk visibility, and automated protection. It's ideal for enhancing data security, compliance, migration, and visibility.

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Amazon Macie pricing

AWS provides pricing for services like bucket inventory, data inspection, and object monitoring, which varies due to factors like number of buckets, data amount inspected, and monitored objects. Examples and FAQs assist customers in understanding the pricing.

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