--- title: Amazon Macie Reviews meta_title: 'Amazon Macie Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 14 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Amazon Macie works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.2 review_count: 14 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-07' parent_category: name: Data Privacy url: https://www.g2.com/categories/data-privacy-3d79da1e-6384-42b3-a11f-d04b6694e806 --- # Amazon Macie Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [Sensitive Data Discovery Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/sensitive-data-discovery) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 14 **AI Enabled:** This product embeds AI to enhance or extend its core functionality. ## About Amazon Macie 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. ## Amazon Macie Reviews ### 1. Powerful, Cost-Effective S3 Sensitive Data Discovery with Amazon Macie **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Atharva P. | Cloud BI Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Current User:** The reviewer uploaded a screenshot or submitted the review in-app verifying them as current user. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **G2 Icon:** Our network of Icons are G2 members who are recognized for their outstanding contributions and commitment to helping others through their expertise. **Reviewed Date:** July 30, 2026 **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** Amazon Macie has become an important part of our cloud security strategy by automatically discovering, classifying, and protecting sensitive data stored in Amazon S3. I particularly like its ability to identify personally identifiable information (PII), financial records, credentials, and other sensitive content without requiring custom data classification rules. The console provides intuitive dashboards, detailed findings, and risk summaries that make it easy for security teams to prioritize remediation efforts. The service integrates seamlessly with Security Hub, CloudTrail, EventBridge, IAM, and AWS Organizations to provide centralized visibility across multiple AWS accounts. Performance has been excellent when scanning large S3 environments, and scheduled discovery jobs automate ongoing compliance monitoring with minimal operational effort. Pricing is based on the amount of data evaluated, making it cost-effective for organizations that need continuous data security monitoring. Although Macie itself is not an AI service, it complements Amazon Q Security by supplying security findings that assist analysts during investigations. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Amazon Macie is focused primarily on Amazon S3. Organizations with sensitive data distributed across multiple storage platforms still require additional security tools to achieve complete enterprise-wide data classification. **What problems is Amazon Macie solving and how is that benefiting you?** Amazon Macie automates the discovery of sensitive information stored in Amazon S3 and helps ensure compliance with internal security policies and regulatory requirements. Example: Scheduled Macie jobs continuously scan S3 buckets used by analytics and application teams to detect sensitive information such as customer PII, API credentials, financial records, and personal identifiers. Findings are automatically forwarded to Security Hub and EventBridge, allowing security teams to investigate and remediate issues before they become compliance risks. ### 2. Great security software **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anjali S. | Associate, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** February 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** The security service that it provides is of great use to our organisation. Alert management is also a beneficial feature of this product. Data security becomes very convenient and trustworthy with this product. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** The support services can be improved. The UI of the software can also be modified for a better experience. Some new updated features or tools can be added to improve the product. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Macie:** The product helps solve security problems and will suggest for new users as it is easy to operate and understand. **What problems is Amazon Macie solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in providing security for sensitive data, and helps in protecting personal information. It is easy to use and understand. The integration is also good. ### 3. Amazon Macie is an entirely new service **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ricardo L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** Amazon Macie looks for sensitive data such as passwords that you store in AWS, applies risk ratings to your different collections of data and then alerts you to unusual access patterns that could indicate a security threat **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** Amazon Macie is easy to integrate and a lot of analytics to inform you of any suspicious behavior. the underlying technology is something we could not have replicated in-house. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Amazon Macie is multiple step tool in order to ensure that there is no way for attacks to find any room to hash any sensitive information. It took long to step up yet worth the hassle **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Macie:** The granular level of inspection, detail and intelligence that Amazon Macie applies is giving us continuous insights into areas of our cloud infrastructure and practices, enabling us to achieve things that would have been unwieldy or even not possible until now ### 4. Macie Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Source: G2 Gives Campaign:** G2 Gives Campaign. The reviewer received either a gift card or a donation made to a charity of their choice in exchange for writing this review. **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** Macie helped me find a user that was creating instances outside of our VPC. This is the only way that I would have found this. Go AI. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** Macie helped me find a user that was creating instances outside of our VPC. This is the only way that I would have found this. Go AI. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** The only thing I dislike is the fact that the cost for monitoring s3 is extremely expensive when you are dealing with billions of objects. ### 5. Amazon Macie brought up company to the 21st century **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Apparel & Fashion | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** October 08, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** Amazon macie helped automate the long process of move sensitive Data between two databases **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** The documentation and customer supported made it easy to transition to the service **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Setting up the environment took a while **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Macie:** If you feel comfortable with your current security protocols I advise you to step out and try tools that would advance them and I can definitely recommend Amazon Macie ### 6. Great Security Tool **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** Amazon Macie, recognizes personally identifiable information, intellectual property, and other sensitive data and provides visibility into access and movement. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** The alerts generated by Macie like a basic alert if it recognized Ransomware blocking access to certain files in your data store. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Still in the early stages of using it, so not much to complain. It works like a charm **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Macie:** Macie is likely to become handier when it is available across AWS' data stores. Once Macie is supported across AWS repositories it'll apply to big data applications. ### 7. Amazing software to manage Marketing tools with automation. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ayush V. | Business Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** 1. Using all amazon Services along with Required statistics. 2. Pulling and updating database is really easy. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** 1. 2 FA for all users. Really good to prevent from frauds. 2. Amazing user interface and support from Amazon. 3. Nice UI and Operations. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Support for ticketing issues is better option as well. Helps in securing more context. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Macie:** Well equipped with amazon technologies is a plus ### 8. Security - Not So Good **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan F. | President, Marketing and Advertising, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2018 At G2, we prefer fresh reviews and we like to follow up with reviewers. They may not have updated their review text, but have updated their review. **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** We were looking for security for AWS and signed up for AMacie. It was supposed to be a solution that worked **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** It was reasonably priced and was easy to deploy. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** It did not supply the needed security and was not as complete as was described **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Macie:** I would look elsewhere for your security needs ### 9. Easy to use **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ábel C. | Growth & Community Management , Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** June 26, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** It's pretty easy to use and actually get tings going. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** How easy it is to use it and it's features. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Everything except how easy it is to use it. ### 10. Amazon intelligence is incredible. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through a business email account **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** August 10, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** Honestly, I think that we are are on the 2050 year because the intelligence. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** The intelligence and the way that they attend you as costumer is the best, it is noticeable that is Amazon. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Honestly, I'm completely happy with all of this Amazon company. ### 11. Still learning, but good inital thoughts. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** Our company is using Amazon Macie to better secure our clients data and do a better job of ensuring we become a one stop shop for their data needs. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** Not sure yet. Need more time to evaluate. The idea of the service is interesting to me. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Hard to quantify the impacts the service has on our business right now. **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Macie:** Definitely check to see how this product fits business development goals. ### 12. Data Storage **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samira B. | Research Scientist, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Source: Organic:** Organic review. This review was written entirely without invitation or incentive from G2, a seller, or an affiliate. **Reviewed Date:** June 13, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** It help to save data, and also have access to all your software. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** You can use needed software everywhere.. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** It is not user-friendly and it is expensive. ### 13. Alert management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 08, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** Amazon Macie is a security service which we use for classifying and protecting data stored in AWS. Amazon system gives us very large possibilities to improve data security and at the same time is very easy to use. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** The application interface is very easy to use. The implementation of the system is very fast and easy. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** The software manufacturer can add several reports and dashboards with information about our entire environment **Recommendations to others considering Amazon Macie:** You have to check it ### 14. Amazon Macie is a powerful tool to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) This reviewer's identity has been verified by our review moderation team. They have asked not to show their name, job title, or picture. **Validated Reviewer:** Validated through LinkedIn **Incentivized:** This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Source: G2 invite:** Invitation from G2. This reviewer was offered a nominal gift card as thank you for completing this review. **Reviewed Date:** July 06, 2018 **Describe the project or task Amazon Macie helped with:** Data Security Automation - we were looking at a data security tool for automation and it worked very well for us to start with and we really got used to the product. **What do you like best about Amazon Macie?** Security issues of Amazon is great and we really took this tool for the security aspect of the business. **What do you dislike about Amazon Macie?** Nothing yet we are still using the tool. - [View Amazon Macie pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-macie/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-25+23%3A43%3A21+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e0b9f8f4-77e3-48b2-b2cb-bb4d031c1bd8&secure%5Btoken%5D=51fd0956ea6d50b0df912b8101659f6fce0b595db1979b6d2e70dc8fb1432118&format=llm_user) ## Amazon Macie Integrations - [Amazon GuardDuty](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-guardduty/reviews) - [Amazon S3 Glacier](https://www.g2.com/products/amazon-s3-glacier/reviews) - [AWS Control Tower](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-control-tower/reviews) - [AWS Security Hub](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-security-hub/reviews) - [AWS Step Functions](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-step-functions/reviews) ## Amazon Macie Features **Functionality** - Structure type - Contextual search - Template algorithms - Custom algorithms - False-positive management - Multiple file and location types - Real-time monitoring - Dashboard - Compliance - Reporting - Data Dictionary Management - Metadata Management - Workflow Management - Compliance Management **Agentic AI - Sensitive Data Discovery** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Proactive Assistance - Third-Party Integrations **Additional Functionality** - Data Visualization - Visual Analytics - Multiple Data Sources - Sensitive Data Identification - Data Import/Export - Trend Analysis - Data Transformation - AI Copilot - Search/Filter - File Sharing - API - Customizable Reports - Dashboard Creation - Forecasting - Reporting/Analytics - Generative AI - Self Service Data Preparation - Data Connectors - Data Mapping - Access Controls/Permissions - Data Extraction - Activity Tracking - Data Cleansing - Drag & Drop - Alerts/Notifications - Publishing/Sharing - Data Synchronization - Big Data Analytics - Ad hoc Query - Data Modeling - AI/Machine Learning ## Top Amazon Macie Alternatives - [Egnyte](https://www.g2.com/products/egnyte/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (1,137 reviews) - [BetterCloud](https://www.g2.com/products/bettercloud/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (481 reviews) - [MineOS](https://www.g2.com/products/mineos/reviews) - 4.7/5.0 (234 reviews)