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Guidance for Data Anonymization on AWS

Overview

This Guidance provides a data anonymization capability that enables you to discover and protect sensitive data as it is stored and processed. For example, you can use this capability to anonymize national ID numbers, trade data, and healthcare information.

How it works

This architecture diagram shows how to integrate AWS services to anonymize data, protecting sensitive information while facilitating secure and compliant data usage in a reliable, secure, and scalable cloud environment.

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Implementation Details

In today’s data-centric society, data anonymization is a critical step in protecting privacy and achieving compliance. It entails changing personal identifiers in a dataset, making it harder to track the data back to its original source. Data anonymization techniques help you keep the data’s utility while significantly reducing privacy issues. These techniques can enable your business to openly share and analyze data, facilitating improved cooperation and smart decision-making while helping you meet privacy requirements.

The data anonymization capability works as a bridge between harnessing data potential and conforming to privacy requirements in contexts where data is a valued commodity. This Guidance is not only about using the technology but also about fostering a culture of trust and appropriate data handling. Ensuring that anonymization procedures correspond effectively with legal requirements and organizational goals requires collaborative effort and shared responsibility among technical, legal, and governance teams.

Disclaimer

The sample code; software libraries; command line tools; proofs of concept; templates; or other related technology (including any of the foregoing that are provided by our personnel) is provided to you as AWS Content under the AWS Customer Agreement, or the relevant written agreement between you and AWS (whichever applies). You should not use this AWS Content in your production accounts, or on production or other critical data. You are responsible for testing, securing, and optimizing the AWS Content, such as sample code, as appropriate for production grade use based on your specific quality control practices and standards. Deploying AWS Content may incur AWS charges for creating or using AWS chargeable resources, such as running Amazon EC2 instances or using Amazon S3 storage.References to third-party services or organizations in this Guidance do not imply an endorsement, sponsorship, or affiliation between Amazon or AWS and the third party. Guidance from AWS is a technical starting point, and you can customize your integration with third-party services when you deploy the architecture.