Tag: PCI DSS

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 […]

AWS has published a whitepaper, Architecting for PCI DSS Scoping and Segmentation on AWS, to provide guidance on how to properly define the scope of your Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS) workloads running on the AWS Cloud. The whitepaper looks at how to define segmentation boundaries between your in-scope and out-of-scope resources […]

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, […]

September 9, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In just the last 6 months, we’ve increased the number of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) certified services by 50%. We were evaluated by third-party auditors from Coalfire and the latest report is now available on AWS […]

October 29, 2021: AWS KMS is replacing the term customer master key (CMK) with AWS KMS key and KMS key. The concept has not changed. To prevent breaking changes, AWS KMS is keeping some variations of this term. More info. You can use the AWS Key Management Service (KMS) custom key store feature to gain […]

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. […]

AWS has added 16 more AWS services to its Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance program, 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: Amazon […]

April 25, 2023: We’ve updated this blog post to include more security learning resources. Note: By default, an instance type that includes an NVMe instance store encrypts data at rest using an XTS-AES-256 block cipher. See this FAQ about NVMe-supported instance types. If you’re using an NVMw instance type, then data at rest is encrypted […]