I have an application which uses the certificate from Java key store which is physically stored on ec2 machine.I want to use the certificate from ACM directly at runtime without storing it on ec2 server.
You can't export AWS ACM certificates. From docs:
You cannot export a publicly trusted ACM certificate or its private key.
If you want to use them with your instances, you either have to front it with load balancer or CloudFront where you can deploy the ACM certs. Other options on how you can use ACM are listed here.
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I am using AWS and I created an Instance in EC2 and created a SSL Certificate in Certificate Manager, I have a domain from whois.com which I was able to connect to my instance using Route 53.
I am now trying to install the SSL Certificate to my EC2 instance and have googled a bunch on tutorials on the subject, but they all are super confusing and don't seem to work, must of them say I need to use a Load Balancer, but either I am missing a step or something I am doing is wrong because the SSL certificate is not working, http works like a charm, https is not working at all.
Is someone able to point me in the right direction?
AWS do not allow the certificates to be downloaded for ACM public CA so you are limited with where it can be attached.
You cannot use a public ACM certificate directly in your EC2 instance. The following resources support attachment for HTTPS of your application:
Elastic Load Balancer (ALB, CLB or Network Load Balancer with a TLS target group)
CloudFront Distribution
API Gateway
If you do not want to use one of these resources then the following 3 options are available for you:
Use a free SSL CA to generate the SSL for your EC2 instance such as certbot
Purchase a SSL from another CA and install on your host
Use AWS ACM Private CA (Although this can be expensive)
We are using Cloudflare, which points to an AWS load balancer in front of an EC2 instance. The goal here is to have end-to-end encryption but I am trying to understand which parts of this setup actually require a certificate from a Certificate Authority, and whether or not we can use a complete set of free certificates between Cloudflare and AWS.
Cloudflare - We can use their free Universal SSL certificate to secure the traffic from Cloudflare to the load balancer.
AWS Load Balancer - We can use a free AWS certificate which is attached to the load balancer. This same certificate cannot be installed on the EC2 instance.
EC2 Instance - Can we use a self-signed certificate here, or do we need to continue purchasing certificates from a recognised authority? My understanding here is that, yes, we can just use a self-signed certificate and everything will be secure without raising any warnings about the self-signed nature of the certificate, as long as the load balancer has a valid CA certificate from Amazon or other authority.
Cloudflare is set to Full SSL mode which does not validate the origin certificate and will allow it to be self-signed, but I assume this only applies to the load balancer in our case.
You can use whichever SSL you want on the instance, self signed or from a certificate authority.
By doing this the data will be encrypted in transit between your load balancer and the EC2 instance.
It is only the AWS services that require either an ACM cert or an uploaded cert from a valid certificate authority.
Ensure that your servers are kept private if you're using self signed certificates.
I was imported SSL certificate using AWS Certificate manager and it will display In Use status as No and my Subdomain didn't work with https.
Below image displayed the status as I described. What was the reason for that?
Edit: I used Amazon EC2 with ubuntu box.
The AWS Certificate Manager provides SSL certificates for use in a limted set of AWS services:
From What Is AWS Certificate Manager?
You cannot install an ACM Certificate directly on your website or
application. You must install your certificate by using one of the
services integrated with ACM. For more information about these
services, see Services Integrated with AWS Certificate Manager.
These integrated services are:
Elastic Load Balancing
Amazon CloudFront
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon API Gateway
It appears you have not configured your ACM SSL to be used in one of these services.
A common misconception is that you can use ACM SSL in any HTTP server on an instance - you cannot. You need to use an ELB infront of any webserver in order to properly configure HTTPS.
You need to go to CloudFront and modify your distribution to point to the new ACM Certificate that you just got. CloudFront will then pick up the new cert and deploy it to your distribution for you. ACM will then mark the certificate as "in use". As long as it's then "in-use", ACM will renew it for you and continue to update CloudFront.
I have dobut in AWS SSL.
I have launched instance in AWS.
Then I got Public IP of launched instance, which pointed to BLUEHOST (only for domain ) DNS record ( Type A).
when I tried subdomain.example.com is working in browser.
Then for SSL, I imported certificate key and crt in certificate manager.And
certificate status is ISSUED.
When I tried HTTPS in browser ( https://subdomain.example.com ) is not working
Any one guide me.
You cannot use the certificate provided by Amazon Certificate Manager(ACM) on EC2 instance. That can only be used with certain AWS services such as Elastic Load Balancer, CloudFront, API Gateway and Elastic Beanstalk.
If you want to use ACM, you can setup a ELB in front of your EC2 instance and have your certificate applied to ELB. When you are requesting for a certificate via ACM make sure to add *.example.com domain to protect your subdomain as well.
If you want to setup SSL on your EC2 instance itself, you can request for SSL certificates from a ssl certificate provider. There are many certificate providers, such as letsencrypt, sslforfree etc..
Here is a guide on how to install SSL certificates obtained from a certificate provider on your EC2 instance.
AWS has come up with a new service AWS Certificate Manager. One thing I got from the description is that if we are using this service we don't have to pay for the certificate anymore.
They are providing certificates for Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and CloudFront, but I didn't find EC2 anywhere.
Is there any way to use the certificate with EC2?
Q: Can I use certificates on Amazon EC2 instances or on my own servers?
No. At this time, certificates provided by ACM can only be used with specific AWS services.
Q: With which AWS services can I use certificates provided by ACM?
You can use ACM with the following AWS services:
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Amazon API Gateway
https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/faqs/
You can't install the certificates created by Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM) on resources you have direct low-level access to, like EC2 or servers outside of AWS, because you aren't provided with access to the private keys. These certs can only be deployed on resources managed by the AWS infrastructure -- ELB and CloudFront -- because the AWS infrastructure holds the only copies of the private keys for the certificates that it generates, and maintains them under tight security with auditable internal access controls.
You'd have to have your EC2 machines listening behind CloudFront or ELB (or both, cascaded, would also work) in order to use these certs for content coming from EC2... because you can't install these certs directly on EC2 machines.
No, you cannot use aws certificate manager for deploying certs on EC2. The certificate manager certs can only be deployed against cloudfront and elastic load balancer. Inoredr to use it on ec2, you need to put elb on top of ec2, so that request from client to load balancer will be https protected and from elb to ec2 webserver will be on http.
If you are using AWS ACM Cert for internal purpose only then you could probably use AWS ACM Private CA to issue the certs.(I think you can use it for public/external traffic purpose as well if your root CA is publicly trusted CA).
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm-pca/latest/userguide/PcaGetStarted.html
During Application/EC2/Container startup, set a step to export your ACM Private CA issued Cert/Private Key to your destination and start referring that for serving the traffic.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/acm/export-certificate.html
One good thing is, you can control who can call export cert feature using IAM Role so not everyone can download private key of the cert.
One downside with this is, private CA is expensive AWS service($400/month).
https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/pricing/
Adding to the comments above, you can't use the AWS Certificate Manager for this, but you can add a Let's Encrypt certificate to ec2 on a Windows server running IIS and it's pretty easy:
Associate an elastic ip with your ec2 instance.
Make sure you have a registered domain. You can't use ec2----------.us-east-1.compute.amazonaws.com type names that come with your instance.
Through your domain provider's DNS settings have your domain point to your Elastic IP.
Connect to your ec2 instance and add your domain name to the site bindings.
Go to https://github.com/PKISharp/win-acme/releases
Look under assets, and use the latest version (win-acme.v2.0.10.444.zip for example). This is the only assets folder that you need.
Unzip the folder, open the terminal as administrator, and cd into the unzipped folder.
Run wacs.exe and follow the prompts.
Make sure the security group assigned to your instance allows traffic (at the very least your own IP) through the HTTPS port you chose in IIS; this is port 443 by default.
I found the links below helpful when I was figuring this out. Here is a video using an earlier release if you need more help, but it's the same idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq5OUOjumuM
Also this article might be helpful:
https://weblog.west-wind.com/posts/2016/feb/22/using-lets-encrypt-with-iis-on-windows