AWS Payment Cryptography now operational in São Paulo

AWS Payment Cryptography has expanded its reach by launching in South America, specifically in São Paulo. This strategic move allows customers with latency-sensitive payment applications to build, deploy, or migrate their services within additional AWS Regions, eliminating the reliance on cross-region support.

The AWS Payment Cryptography service is a fully managed offering that simplifies the management of payment-specific cryptographic operations and key management for cloud-hosted payment applications. It is designed to scale according to business needs and is compliant with PCI PIN and PCI P2PE standards, removing the necessity for maintaining dedicated payment hardware security module (HSM) instances. This service is particularly beneficial for organizations involved in payment processing, such as acquirers, payment facilitators, networks, switches, processors, and banks. These entities can now position their cryptographic operations closer to their applications, reducing dependencies on auxiliary data centers that require 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, customers are advised to download the latest AWS CLI/SDK and refer to the AWS Payment Cryptography user guide for detailed information.