Top 5 PCI Compliant Hosting Providers

This article explains how payment systems operate on hosting infrastructure aligned with PCI DSS and outlines shared responsibility between platform providers and organizations, comparing public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and managed providers like Rackspace. It discusses how hosting choices influence architecture, segmentation, documentation for assessments, and pricing models, contrasts cloud-native with traditional environments, and addresses common FAQs about scope, operational models, and hybrid deployments.