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AWS Certificate Manager

Updated Aug 30, 2020 ·
NOTES

This is not an exhaustive documentation of all the existing AWS Services. These are summarized notes that I used for the AWS Certifications.

To see the complete documentation, please go to: AWS documentation

AWS Certificate Manager​

It is a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy plublic and private SSL/TLS certificates.

  • These certficates can be used to secure network communications.
  • Can be used to establish identiy of websites over the internet.
  • Quicker way to purchase, upload, and renew SSL/TLS certificates.
  • Can be used with AWS Loadbalancers and AWS CloudFront.
  • Can be automatically renewed as long as:
    • domain is purchased in AWS Route 53
    • and it is a public hosted zone
  • ACM TLS/SSL certificates cannot be exported.

How it works:​

  1. Add a domain name which can be:

    • Purchased through AWS Route53
    • Existing domain name added to AWS Route53

  2. Validate the domain through:

    • DNS Validation, where you need to modify the domain name to contain a DNS record generated by ACM
    • Email validation, if you don't have permission to modify the DNS configuration

  3. Review

  4. Validate