Amazon Elastic Container Registry is now PCI DSS compliant in APAC, EMEA and AMER

AWS has announced that Amazon Elastic Container Registry is now PCI compliance with AMER, EMEA, and APAC. The PCI DSS compliance in China is still pending. Elastic Container Registry can be used to deploy, store and manage the Docker Container Images which are now compliant to the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Amazon ECS also meets the PCI compliance in AMER, APAC, and EMEA. PCI DSS is a Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is security standard that protects the entities that store, transmit, process the cardholder data or the sensitive authentication data including the service providers, processors, acquirers and merchants.