AWS Payment Cryptography is now available in Sydney with AS2805 support
Today, AWS Payment Cryptography has expanded to Australia (Sydney) Region, and now supports AS2805 functionality. This expansion represents the service's thirteenth AWS Region worldwide. With AS2805 capabilities customers can migrate more payment workloads to AWS while maintaining operability with other companies utilizing this standard.
Australia, New Zealand and several other countries rely on Australia Standards 2805 (AS2805) as a consistent approach for managing cryptography between organizations for card payments. Historically, these companies required Hardware Security Modules (HSM) to perform these operations in a compliant, compatible manner. AWS Payment Cryptography now provides equivalent functionality for node-to-node use cases in an elastic, scalable service, eliminating the operational burden of procuring and managing standalone hardware. Customers can leverage the service’s use of PCI-certified HSMs as part of their overall compliance programs while using APIs that integrate with AWS IAM and AWS CloudTrail.
AWS Payment Cryptography is available in the following AWS Regions: Canada (Montreal), US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London), Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka, Mumbai) and Australia New Zealand (Sydney).
To start using the service, please download the latest AWS CLI/SDK and see the AWS Payment Cryptography user guide for more information including further compliance details.