Patent ID: 11861039
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 4:
5. A method, comprising:
analyzing, by a one or more sensitive data classifiers local to a storage system, a plurality of data items, wherein the data items comprise data items stored at the storage system or incoming data items for the storage system;
classifying, by the one or more sensitive data classifiers, at least some data items of the plurality of data items as containing sensitive data, based at least in part on the analysis;
recording which of the plurality data items were classified as containing sensitive data; and
providing the at least some data items to a separate sensitive data discovery component to:
obtain the at least some data items classified by the one or more sensitive data classifiers as containing the sensitive data;
perform a sensitive data location analysis on the at least some obtained data items to identify a location of the sensitive data distinct from non-sensitive data within one or more of the data items; and
generate location information for the sensitive data within the one or more data items.