Additional AI Language Services Are Certified as PCI DSS Compliant

Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Transcribe are now certified as compliant with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), a proprietary information security standard administered by the PCI Security Standard Council. This means that these services are certified to handle cardholder data (CHD) and sensitive authentication data (SAD), including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers.

For those of you who are not familiar with these services, please see quick summaries below:

Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to find insights and relationships in text. To get started refer to this technical documentation, or check out this 10-minute step-by-step tutorial.

Amazon Translate is a neural-network based machine translation service that delivers high-quality, real-time, and affordable language translation. To get started refer to this technical documentation, or check out this 10-minute step-by-step tutorial.

Amazon Transcribe is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) service that makes it easy for developers to add speech-to-text capability to their applications. To get started refer to this technical documentation, or check out this 10-minute step-by-step tutorial.

In addition to PCI DDS, all three services are also HIPAA eligible, enabling customers to use these services to build HIPAA-compliant applications or process documents containing protected health information (PHI).

For a full list of services in scope for compliance programs, go to the Services in Scope by Compliance Program page.