Amazon Web Services taps machine learning to tackle security with Macie

The fruits of Amazon Web Services' acquisition of harvest.ai AWS announced Macie and several other new services at the AWS Summit in New York Monday morning, including the news that Hulu built its Live TV service on AWS. The new services were spread across a number of different fronts, but most are designed to make it easier for companies with existing workloads outside of the cloud to finally take the plunge with AWS. Macie is a little different. A brand new service, Macie was the name of harvest.ai's It allows customers of Amazon Web Services' S3 storage product to track sensitive customer data or intellectual property across their cloud footprint and set up alerts to track behavior, such as if a large amount of that sensitive data is downloaded.