AWS Payment Cryptography expands to São Paulo, enhancing regional support

AWS Payment Cryptography has increased its reach with a new availability in South America, specifically São Paulo. This development allows customers who require low-latency payment applications to create, implement, or transition their services to additional AWS Regions without relying on cross-region support.

The AWS Payment Cryptography service is a fully managed solution that streamlines cryptographic operations and key management specifically for payment applications hosted in the cloud. The service is designed to scale according to business requirements and is compliant with PCI PIN and PCI P2PE standards. This compliance removes the necessity for maintaining separate payment Hardware Security Module (HSM) instances.

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

AWS Payment Cryptography is now 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 Asia Pacific (Singapore, Tokyo, Osaka, Mumbai, Hyderabad).

To begin using this service, users should download the latest AWS CLI/SDK and refer to the AWS Payment Cryptography user guide for comprehensive instructions.