Suspending Macie for your AWS account - Amazon Macie

Suspending Macie for your AWS account

You can temporarily pause Amazon Macie for your AWS account in an AWS Region. You can do this by suspending Macie in the Region. Macie then stops performing all activities for your account in that Region. You aren't charged for using Macie in the Region while it's suspended.

If you suspend Macie in a Region, Macie retains the session identifier, settings, data, and resources that it stores or maintains for your account in the Region. For example, your existing findings remain intact and are retained for up to 90 days. However, when you suspend Macie, Macie stops performing all activities for your account in the Region. This includes: monitoring your Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data, performing automated sensitive data discovery, and running sensitive data discovery jobs that are currently in progress. Macie also cancels all of your sensitive data discovery jobs in the Region.

Note

If your account is part of an organization that centrally manages multiple Macie accounts, note the following requirements for suspending Macie:

  • If you have a member account in an AWS Organizations organization, you must contact the Macie administrator for your organization. Only your Macie administrator can suspend Macie for your account.

  • If you're the Macie administrator for the organization, you must remove all member accounts that are associated with your account before you suspend Macie for your account. How you do this depends on whether your account is associated with the accounts through AWS Organizations or by invitation. For more information, see Managing multiple accounts.

After you suspend Macie in a Region, you can enable it again later. You then regain access to your Macie settings, data, and resources in the Region. In addition, Macie resumes its activities for your account in the Region. This includes updating and maintaining information about your S3 buckets, and monitoring the buckets for security and access control. This doesn't include resuming or restarting your sensitive data discovery jobs. Sensitive data discovery jobs can't be resumed or restarted after they're cancelled.

To suspend Macie for your account

To suspend Macie for your account, you can use the Amazon Macie console or the Amazon Macie API. Follow these steps to suspend it by using the console. To suspend it programmatically, use the UpdateMacieSession operation of the Amazon Macie API.

  1. Open the Amazon Macie console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/macie/.

  2. By using the AWS Region selector in the upper-right corner of the page, choose the Region in which you want to suspend Macie.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Settings.

  4. In the Suspend Macie section, choose Suspend Macie.

  5. When prompted for confirmation, enter Suspend, and then choose Suspend.

To suspend Macie in additional Regions, repeat the preceding steps in each additional Region.

To subsequently re-enable Macie in a Region, open the Amazon Macie console and select the Region from the AWS Region selector. Then choose Settings in the navigation pane. In the Suspend Macie section, choose Re-enable Macie.