Your organization is migrating a set of payment-processing microservices containing cardholder data to a public cloud platform. Compliance with PCI-DSS and several state privacy regulations is mandatory, and auditors will expect evidence of control effectiveness. When short-listing potential cloud providers, which factor should be given the greatest weight to ensure the migration can satisfy these obligations?
Independent third-party compliance certifications relevant to your regulatory requirements
Availability of multiple geographic regions and cross-region fail-over capabilities
Documented incident-response playbooks and breach-notification service-level targets
Built-in data-at-rest encryption mechanics and customer-managed key options
Industry and regulatory compliance certifications (for example, ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS attestation) demonstrate that an independent third-party has verified the provider's security governance, physical and logical controls, and ongoing control monitoring. Because your workload must meet external audit requirements, choosing a provider that can supply these reports removes significant compliance risk and evidence-collection effort. Strong encryption, multi-region redundancy, and mature incident-response programs are important, but none of them alone prove that all required controls are implemented and continuously assessed across the provider's environment.
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