AWS Certificate Manager

Certificate management is one of the most complex and troublesome activities regardless of where you are hosting your data and workloads.

AWS Certificate Manager

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) makes it easy for you to centrally manage your SSL/TLS certificates from the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or ACM APIs. You can also audit the use of each certificate by reviewing your AWS CloudTrail logs.

ACM is integrated with other AWS services, so you can provision an SSL/TLS certificate and deploy it with your Elastic Load Balancer, Amazon CloudFront distribution and Amazon API Gateway.

ACM also works with AWS Elastic Beanstalk and AWS CloudFormation for public email-validated certificates to help you manage public certificates and use them with your applications in the AWS Cloud.

To deploy a certificate with an AWS resource, you simply select the certificate you want from a drop-down list in the AWS Management Console.

Alternatively, you can call an AWS API or CLI to associate the certificate with your resource.

3 Use cases

·      Protect and secure your website

Provision and manage certificates so you can securely stop traffic to your website or application.

·      Protect your internal resources

Secure communication between connected resources on private networks, such as servers, mobile and IoT devices, and applications.

·      Improve uptime

Maintain SSL/TLS certificates, including certificate renewals, with automated certificate management.