Automate custom PII detection at scale with Amazon Macie and Step Functions | Amazon Web Services

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This post details the implementation of an event-driven pipeline for automated PII detection using Amazon Macie and AWS Step Functions. It introduces a solution that leverages Amazon EventBridge to trigger an AWS Step Functions workflow upon file ingestion into Amazon S3. The workflow orchestrates Macie classification jobs, including custom data identifiers, and generates compliance reports. Key architectural components include a three-bucket S3 pattern for data isolation, Lambda functions for job orchestration and status polling, and Amazon SNS for real-time alerts. The post provides a CloudFormation template for deployment and instructions for testing the pipeline, including configuring custom data identifiers.