AWS certificate manager (ACM)

  • Helps in managing SSL certificates

Ways to renew certificates

  1. Buy and upload using AWS CLI
  2. ACM will provision and renew for free

Integrations for which SSL certificates are loaded

  1. Load balancers
  2. Cloudfront distribution
  3. APIs on API gateways

Creating SSL certificate

  • Management console -> ACM
  • Select public or private certificate
  • Can import existing certificate or create new one
  • Provide the domain name
  • Choose validation criteria
  • If CNAME is not created for the domain, create one
  • Once the validation is completed, domain should be accessible using https request and certificate can also be viewed

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