Amazon Macie vs AWS Shield | What are the differences?

Amazon Macie vs AWS Shield: What are the differences?

What is Amazon Macie? Automatically Discover, Classify, and Secure Content at Scale. Amazon Macie is a security service that uses machine learning to automatically discover, classify, and protect sensitive data in AWS. Amazon Macie recognizes sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or intellectual property, and provides you with dashboards and alerts that give visibility into how this data is being accessed or moved.

What is AWS Shield? Managed DDoS Protection. AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service that safeguards web applications running on AWS. AWS Shield provides always-on detection and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime and latency, so there is no need to engage AWS Support to benefit from DDoS protection.

Amazon Macie and AWS Shield can be categorized as “Security” tools.