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FinTech Payments & Compliance on AWS (2026): Ledger, Fraud, and PCI Boundary Reference Architecture
For a card-acquiring fintech (~12M authorizations/mo), Payment Cryptography + PCI-scoped account cut a modeled $18k/mo from the HSM rack lease, and fraud review queue p95 went from 2.4s to 380ms after an EventBridge Pipes idempotency fix.


