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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?
It seems you can only use it with load balance and cloud front. There is no way to get the cert or private key
According to there control panel. It's amazon.
From ACM's FAQ:
Amazon Trust Services
Interesting, but not so much since they don't give you no access to the private keys.
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.
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.