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AWS Certificate Manager - Free SSL Certificates from Amazon AWS
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AWS Certificate Manager - Free SSL Certificates from Amazon AWS

Just received that email from AWS:

Dear Amazon Web Services Customer,

AWS Certificate Manager is a new service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the Internet. AWS Certificate Manager removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates. With AWS Certificate Manager, you can quickly request a certificate, deploy it on AWS resources such as Elastic Load Balancers or Amazon CloudFront distributions, and let AWS Certificate Manager handle certificate renewals. SSL/TLS certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager are free. You pay only for the AWS resources you create to run your application.

To learn more, visit the AWS Certificate Manager website.

Sincerely,
The AWS Certificate Manager Team

Comments

  • Issuing CA?

  • gianggiang Veteran
    edited January 2016

    It seems you can only use it with load balance and cloud front. There is no way to get the cert or private key :(

    @doghouch said:
    Issuing CA?

    According to there control panel. It's amazon.

  • @doghouch said:
    Issuing CA?

    From ACM's FAQ:

    Q: How can I confirm that my browser trusts certificates provided by ACM?

    Browsers that trust certificates provided by ACM display a lock icon and do not issue certificate warnings when connected to sites that use certificates provided by ACM over SSL/TLS, for example using HTTPS.

    Certificates provided by ACM are verified by Amazon’s certificate authority (CA). Any browser, application, or OS that includes the Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2, or the Starfield Class 2 Root Certificate Authority trusts certificates provided by ACM by default.

    Amazon Trust Services

    Thanked by 1doghouch
  • NyrNyr Community Contributor, Veteran

    Interesting, but not so much since they don't give you no access to the private keys.

    Thanked by 2GM2015 doghouch
  • The price of the service should dictate this as well. What I mean is yeah it is free, but for what you pay for the service it should be free. Plus as others have said you do not have control over it. On the face of the offer it seems like a good deal, but after digging deeper it is not so much.

    Thanked by 1yomero
  • alfredalfred Member, Host Rep

    This is super interesting for sure. They're basically issuing free wildcard SSL certs, but since they don't give you the private key, it can only be used on Cloudfront or ELB services...

    I guess it would be worth it if you used those, but otherwise there's Let's Encrypt.

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