Exam Data-Engineer-Associate Topic 1 Question 190 Discussion

Option B is the right approach because the requirement is to mask PII in the log destination (the CloudWatch Logs log group). The exam guide explicitly calls out security responsibilities that include "data encryption and masking" and also emphasizes enabling and preparing logs for audit and governance needs. A log-group-level masking mechanism is therefore the most direct control point to prevent sensitive values from being exposed to anyone who can view logs.
Option A (Glue security configuration) is primarily used to apply protections such as encryption settings for Glue jobs and related outputs; it does not inherently solve the problem of masking PII that has already been emitted into application logs. Option C (Macie) is intended to discover and classify sensitive data-most commonly in Amazon S3-and to produce findings; it is not a log-masking control for CloudWatch Logs.
The material reinforces Macie as a discovery/classification service for PII rather than a masking mechanism.
Option D adds custom code paths in the ETL job and still may miss PII that appears in framework/system logs; it also violates the "least operational effort" spirit compared to applying a centralized log policy.
Therefore, attaching a data protection policy directly to the CloudWatch Logs log group best meets the masking requirement.