Case Study: PayFort achieves PCI DSS compliance and 32% cost savings with Amazon Web Services

PayFort - Customer Case Study

PayFort is a UAE-based startup that provides an online payments gateway to businesses across the Middle East, serving customers such as Etihad Airways, Ferrari World, and Souq.com. Rather than build and run its own data centers, PayFort needed a secure, compliant, and automated environment that let the team focus on product development while meeting strict standards like PCI DSS and ISO 27001.

PayFort chose AWS for its strong compliance credentials and runs its platform entirely on AWS (EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, S3 across Availability Zones, VPC, and Oracle on Amazon RDS), with plans to adopt CloudHSM and ongoing AWS Support. The move cut infrastructure staffing needs dramatically, proved 32% more cost-effective than on-premises, sped feature delivery through DevOps automation, and delivered the security and compliance that sustain customer trust.

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Maha Abu Touq

IT Director