The TCO of "Free" Cloud PII Redaction: AWS Comprehend, Google DLP, vs Self-Hosted at Scale
Per-character SaaS pricing looks cheap at demo scale and gets eye-watering at production scale. A worked-example TCO comparison: AWS Comprehend, Google Cloud DLP, and self-hosted Philter on the marketplace.
Migrating from AWS Comprehend to Philter: A Practical Transition Guide
A side-by-side migration guide for teams moving PII detection from AWS Comprehend to self-hosted Philter. API translations, code samples, deployment patterns, and a safe shadow-mode cutover.
Deploying Philter in Air-Gapped Environments
How to deploy Philter — and the rest of the Philterd toolkit — into completely offline VPCs and disconnected cloud regions. No phone-home, no hidden telemetry, no external dependencies.
Automatically Redacting PII and PHI from Files in Amazon S3 using Amazon Macie and Philter
Amazon Macie is “a data security service that discovers sensitive data using machine learning and pattern matching.” With Amazon Macie you can find potentially sensitive information in files in your Amazon S3 buckets, but what do you do when Amazon Macie finds a file that contains an SSN, phone number, or other piece of sensitive information?…
Redacting Text in Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
Amazon Kinesis Firehose is a managed streaming service designed to take large amounts of data from one place to another. For example, you can take data from sources such as Amazon CloudWatch, AWS IoT, and custom applications using the AWS SDK to destinations Amazon S3, Amazon Redshift, Amazon Elasticsearch, and other services. In this post…