Tag: PCI

We’re pleased to announce that seven services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification, providing our customers more options to process and store their payment card data and architect their Cardholder Data Environment (CDE) securely in AWS. In the past year we have increased the […]

At AWS Security, continuously raising the cloud security bar for our customers is central to all that we do. Part of that work is focused on our formal compliance certifications, which enable our customers to use the AWS cloud for highly sensitive and/or regulated workloads. We see our customers constantly developing creative and innovative solutions—and […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Logging account activity within your AWS infrastructure is paramount to your security posture and could even be required by compliance standards such as PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Security Standard). Organizations often analyze these logs to adapt to changes and respond […]

Our security culture is one of the things that sets AWS apart. Security is job zero — it is the foundation for all AWS employees and impacts the work we do every day, across the company. And that’s reflected in our services, which undergo exacting internal and external security reviews before being released. From there, […]

We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs to support your most important workloads. I’m pleased to tell you that eight services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certification. With these additions, you can now select from a total of 62 PCI-compliant services. […]

Twelve more AWS services have obtained Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance, giving you more options, flexibility, and functionality to process and store sensitive payment card data in the AWS Cloud. The services were audited by Coalfire to ensure that they meet strict PCI DSS standards. The newly compliant AWS services are: […]

Released today, the PCI DSS Quick Start includes learnings from AWS field teams that have migrated and deployed workloads that are in scope for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance. The AWS CloudFormation templates and scripts included in this Quick Start can help you build a standardized environment that supports compliance with the […]

As I mentioned previously, the breakout sessions for the Security & Compliance track at re:Invent 2015 have been announced. And in my most recent re:Invent post, I focused on the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) sessions that will be offered as part of the Security & Compliance track. Today, I want to highlight the […]

PCI compliance in the cloud is an important topic for many of our customers. Our PCI FAQ page has received more than 45,000 views, and we have issued our PCI compliance package directly to customers in all major regions and industry verticals. To build on our growing demand of PCI enablers, today we’re happy to […]

We’re happy to announce the availability of the 2013 PCI Compliance Package. Along with the AWS PCI Attestation of Compliance, this package includes our independent assessor’s revised and expanded PCI Customer Responsibility Matrix, which describes the customer and AWS shared responsibility for each of the 200+ PCI Data Security Standard controls. This document will help […]