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The new service dubbed Amazon Macie relies on Machine Learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data stored in AWS. This service reports potential risks involved with the stored data, its permissions, and access patterns. Chris Vickery, a cyber risk security analyst from UpGuard, discovered several passwords and keys belonging to Booz Allen employees working on the NGA project in publicly accessible Amazon S3 Buckets. Though Amazon S3 is the only data source supported by Macie, AWS is expected to bring other services such as Amazon RedShift, Amazon RDS, Amazon Elastic File System into the fold.