By taking advantage of Macie, Edmunds can better discover, classify, and protect its data, giving administrators actionable information about potential threats. Edmunds has a diverse and distributed environment, and Macie acts as an automated magnifying glass that reveals things that are otherwise difficult to notice. Additionally, Macie offers immediate and long-term benefits for Edmunds. “Right now, we can see exactly where our most sensitive data is within Amazon S3. In the future, we’ll be able to use Macie to view all our data logs and notice data-breach patterns we wouldn’t have been aware of,” says Zadgaonkar.

“AWS helps us keep pace with the rapid growth we see at Edmunds,” says Zadgaonkar. “We can move faster as a company when we want to roll out new features on the site, because of the elasticity and scalability we get by using AWS. And we are constantly exploring additional AWS services, because AWS enables us to focus on what we do well—maintain our product and create new features that make our website better for our end users.”