AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar covers 22.5% of PCI DSS 4.0
63 of the 280 controls in PCI DSS 4.0 are already satisfied by evidence you collected for AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar. 217 are genuine gaps. Every claim below was judged against both control sets and then argued against; the ones that did not survive are published further down with the reason each failed.
What this leaves you to do
PCI DSS 4.0 has 280 controls. Holding AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar already evidences 63 of them, so the work in front of you is 217 controls, not 280, which is 78% of the standard rather than all of it.
That is the whole claim. Every number in that sentence comes from the two counts above it and can be re-derived from the free tools without taking our word for any of it.
In money, using only our numbers. The full report is $299 and names 63 controls of PCI DSS 4.0 you do not have to implement again, which is $4.75 per control identified. That arithmetic uses our price and our count and assumes nothing about you.
In your hours, using your assumption. We do not know what a control costs you to implement, so pick the column that looks like your organisation. These are your figures, not our claim.
| If a control takes you | 4 hours | 8 hours | 16 hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| the 63 already evidenced are | 252 hours | 504 hours | 1,008 hours |
| and the 217 remaining are | 868 hours | 1,736 hours | 3,472 hours |
Multiply by your own rate. We publish no rate because we have not measured yours, and a number built on an invented rate is the kind of claim this platform exists to argue against.
This number is directional. It says how much of PCI DSS 4.0 your AWS Well-Architected Security Pillar evidence satisfies. The reverse pair is a different number, often very different, because a security standard has enormous depth for access control and almost none for lawful basis or data subject rights.
129 candidate mappings were examined and 0 were removed. Signed off 2026-08-19.
Claims that did not hold
Nothing proposed for this pair was rejected in review. That is unusual and worth knowing rather than hiding: it means the candidate set was small and every candidate held.
The full report
Everything above is a sample. The report is every evidenced control and every gap, with the reasoning and the source document behind each one, in a form you can hand to an assessor. $299, emailed immediately.
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