Payment Card Industry Compliances for Amazon

Running head: PAYMENT CARD INDUSTRY COMPLIANCES FOR AMAZON
PAYMENT CARD INDUSTRY COMPLIANCES FOR AMAZON
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1PAYMENT CARD INDUSTRY COMPLIANCES FOR AMAZON
PCI compliance or Payment Card Industry is a set of data security standards that
apply to the organisation of any size where payment through credit card is accepted (Singh &
Kumar, 2014). PCI compliances give a range of advantage to cyber security with the help of
specialised tools and software. If an organization is accepting the payment through credit
cards then then it need to handle data of the cardholder. By providing encryption to the public
networks, protection to sensitive data can be achieved (Hendre & Joshi, 2015). All the data
are stored securely, and the data are transmitted in encrypted form. An organisation adopts
tools for secure transaction of money and storing the data.
Amazon Web series is a large retailer organisation in the U.S, and the compliance offers
security based architecture that is based on the solutions to help the database administrator
(Amazon Web Services, Inc., 2019). There are several PCI compliances for the database
administrator that includes building and maintenance of a secure network, Protecting the data
of the cardholder, program for management of vulnerability, implementing several control
measures, network testing and maintenance of IT security. All these PCI compliance is
provided by the Quickstart architecture of AWS. For supporting the Payment card industry
compliances, a cloud architecture is built in amazon web series (Amazon Web Services, Inc.,
2019). The services that are offered by Amazon Web Series is a range of QuickStarts. It
makes it easy for the database administrator with PCI compliance. It includes the formation
of Cloud templates that help in the configuration of the environment, supports the automation
of the deployment and provides guidance for every step (Kalaiprasath, Elankavi &
Udayakumar, 2017). The implementation of cloud architecture consists of some elements and
features. The identity and access management policies and configuration that are specific to
certain roles and person are provided. To ensure high availability of private subnets and
subnets for other applications architecture of Multi-AZ is adopted. There is a storage device
known as Amazon S3 buckets used in encryption of data content, logging and data backup