AWS – AWS Payment Cryptography reduces API pricing by up to 63% and introduces tiered key pricing

Today, AWS Payment Cryptography announced a significant price reduction of up to 63% for API requests across existing tiers and introduced a new fourth tier. This change unifies pricing across all regions and enables customers to migrate higher volume workloads to the service without being worried about pricing. As part of this update, we moved from flat rate to tiered key pricing, better supporting customers who need to manage high volumes of cryptographic keys. The new pricing model allows customers to cost-effectively scale both their key management and payment processing operations while optimizing costs at any volume.

AWS Payment Cryptography is a managed AWS service that provides access to cryptographic functions and key management used in payment processing in accordance with Payment Card Industry (PCI) security standards without the need to procure dedicated payment Hardware Security Module (HSM) instances. The service enables customers performing payment functions such as acquirers, payment facilitators, networks, switches, processors, and banks to move their payment cryptographic operations closer to applications in the cloud and minimize dependencies on auxiliary data centers or colocation facilities containing dedicated payment HSMs.

The price change is effective from December 15 2025, across all AWS Regions where AWS Payment Cryptography is available and automatically applies to all customers without any further action. For more information about pricing, visit the AWS Payment Cryptography pricing page. To learn more about the service, see the AWS Payment Cryptography user guide.

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