Posted On: Jun 23, 2023

Sensitive data detection feature in AWS Glue can now detect over 250 sensitive entity types from 50 countries out-of-the-box.

Sensitive data detection feature in AWS Glue identifies a variety of sensitive data elements like social security numbers, credit card numbers, names, driver license numbers and other entities. Once detected, customers can take actions to redact the sensitive information before writing records into their data repositories. Customers can use this from AWS Glue Studio, Glue Interactive sessions and AWS Glue Studio.

With this new capability, customers can detect data that is classified as sensitive in over 50 countries without having to write complex code. Supported countries include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Balkans, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, SouthAfrica, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, United Kingdom, Ukraine, United States, and Venezuela. Customers can also create custom detectors to detect entities specific to their organizations. This feature is available in the commercial Regions as AWS Glue.

To learn more about Sensitive Data Detection in AWS Glue Studio, visit our documentation.