Aws payment cryptography extends reach to South America with São Paulo launch

AWS Payment Cryptography has broadened its international footprint by launching in South America, specifically in São Paulo. This development allows customers with latency-sensitive payment applications to construct, deploy, or transition these applications to additional AWS Regions, eliminating the reliance on cross-region support.

AWS Payment Cryptography offers a fully managed service that streamlines cryptographic operations and key management tailored for cloud-hosted payment applications. The service is designed to scale in accordance with business demands and is evaluated as compliant with PCI PIN and PCI P2PE standards. This compliance removes the necessity for maintaining dedicated payment Hardware Security Module (HSM) instances.

Organizations involved in payment processing, such as acquirers, payment facilitators, networks, switches, processors, and banks, can now localize their payment cryptographic operations closer to their applications. This proximity reduces the reliance on additional data centers housing dedicated payment HSMs.

AWS Payment Cryptography is accessible in several AWS Regions, including Canada (Montreal), US East (Ohio, N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland, Frankfurt, London, Paris), South America (São Paulo), Africa (Cape Town), and the Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka, Mumbai, Hyderabad).

To initiate the use of this service, customers are encouraged to download the latest AWS CLI/SDK and consult the AWS Payment Cryptography user guide for further guidance.