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AWS Compliance Center

Taiwan

Regulations

This page provides AWS financial institution customers with information about the legal and regulatory requirements in Taiwan that may apply to their use of AWS services.

    Yes. Financial institutions in Taiwan are permitted to use cloud services, provided that they comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements, such as those described below. 

    The Taiwan Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) regulates all financial institutions including financial holding companies, banking institutions, securities companies, futures companies, insurance companies, electronic financial transaction companies, and other financial service institutions.

    AWS is committed to offering customers a strong compliance framework and advanced tools and security measures that customers can use to evaluate meet, and demonstrate compliance with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

    Financial institutions who are using or planning to use AWS services can take the following steps to better understand their compliance needs:

    1. Consider the purpose of the workload(s) under consideration and the relevant categories of data in order to anticipate which legal and regulatory requirements may apply.

    2. Assess the criticality of the relevant workload(s) in light of local requirements and seek the relevant regulatory approvals. For example, customers regulated under the Cloud Outsourcing Regulations for Banking Institutions , Cloud Outsourcing Regulations for Insurance Companies , Directions for Operations Outsourcing by Securities Trading Companies , or Directions for Operations Outsourcing by Futures Trading Companies will require approval from the FSC to use AWS services.

    3. Review the AWS Shared Responsibility Model and map AWS responsibilities and customer responsibilities according to each AWS service that will be used. Customers can also use AWS Artifact to access AWS’s audit reports and conduct their assessment of the control responsibilities.

    4. Customers who have further questions about how AWS services can enable their security and compliance needs, or who would like more information, can contact their account representative.

Resources

General

Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) on AWS

This guide provides customers with information to be able to plan for and document the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance of their AWS workloads. This includes the selection of controls that meet specific PCI DSS requirements, planning of evidence gathering to meet assessment testing procedures, and explaining their control implementation to their PCI Qualified Security Assessor (QSA).

Using AWS in the Context of Common Privacy and Data Protection Considerations

This document provides information to assist customers who want to use AWS to store or process content containing personal data, in the context of common privacy and data protection considerations. It will help customers understand the way AWS services operate, including how customers can address security and encrypt their content. The geographic locations where customers can choose to store content and other relevant considerations. The respective roles the customer and AWS each play in managing and securing content stored on AWS services.

AWS Compliance Quick Reference Guide

AWS has many compliance-enabling features that you can use for your regulated workloads in the AWS cloud. These features allow you to achieve a higher level of security at scale. Cloud-based compliance offers a lower cost of entry, easier operations, and improved agility by providing more oversight, security control, and central automation.

AWS Operational Resilience

The purpose of this paper is to describe how AWS and our customers in the financial services industry achieve operational resilience using AWS services.

Data Classification and Secure Cloud Adoption

This paper provides insight into classification schemes for public and private organizations to leverage when moving data to the cloud. It identifies practices and models currently implemented by global first movers and early adopters, examines how implementation of these schemes can simplify cloud adoption, and recommends practices to harmonize national requirements to internationally recognized standards and frameworks.

AWS Policy Perspectives: Data Residency

This paper addresses: The real and perceived security risks expressed by governments when they demand in-country data residency. Commercial, public sector, and economic impact of in-country data residency policies with a focus on government data. Considerations for governments to evaluate before enforcing requirements that can unintentionally limit public sector digital transformation goals leading to increased cybersecurity risk.

AWS Risk and Compliance

This document is intended to provide information to assist AWS customers with integrating AWS into their existing control framework supporting their IT environment. This document includes a basic approach to evaluating AWS controls and provides information to assist customers with integrating control environments. This document also addresses AWS-specific information around general cloud computing compliance questions.

AWS Security Audit Guidelines

Guidelines for systematically reviewing and monitoring your AWS resources for security best practices.

 

 

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