I want to add an SSL certificate to my application that is currently deployed on Elastic Beanstalk. I had created the certificate using AWS Certificate Manager using both the validation methods but none of them worked. I neither got an email nor adding the CNAME to godaddy as well as Route 53 got it validated. I had followed the exact steps specified in the documentation. I am the owner of the domain so I should have gotten an email but I didn't. Any idea what might I might be doing wrong?
Also, is there another way to generate the SSL certificate besides AWS CM for my application?
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I deployed a DRF application on Elastic Beanstalk and now I need to make it https.
I requested a public certificate from AWS ACM using EB URL for domain name but got the following message.
You cannot request a certificate for Amazon-owned domain names such as those ending in amazonaws.com, cloudfront.net, or elasticbeanstalk.com.
Now the question is can I get a certificate without spending money on domain?
I tried to get a free subdomains but none of them had the functionality to manage DNS settings.
can I get a certificate without spending money on domain?
No. For valid SSL certificate you need your own domain, or domain that you control. There are free domain providers, but for anything other than testing, you need to pay for a domain.
I've deployed an app to Elastic Beanstalk and now in order to have htpps I need to add port 443 in ELB and mention the SSL certificate. Now as I don't have one I'm trying to create. I got the domain after deploying frontend to Firebase. I found that after requesting the certificate I need to create a CNAME record and use values provided in AWS requested certificate in order to validate it I just can't seem to find the way to create it in Firebase. Am I doing something wrong? Any help is appreciated
I tried to create the cname in AWS Route 53 hosted zones and expected the ssl to be validated but I think I need to create the record in Firebase I don't know how to do it.
You would need to identify where your DNS records are being managed. Once you get the records added at the right place your certificate will be validated successfully.
Apologies on the broad title;my question is mainly around validating domain names in AWS Certificate Manager such that I can get valid ACM going. These are currently in Heroku and need to be migrated into AWS.
The Heroku ACM will validate a custom domain and issue a certificate if the DNS for said custom domain is a CNAME to the Heroku app's main domain. For example, if I have my-heroku-app.com and I make a CNAME from example.com to that then Heroku will successfully generate a cert and I can visit https://example.com with proper TLS. This can be verified with a simple curl -Iv https://example.com which shows a certificate issued by Let's Encrypt.
Conversely the AWS Certificate Manager requires a specific CNAME record and value to be set on a domain in order for it to generate certificates for that domain. Until that happens, I do not see a way to use things like API Gateway or ELB with said domain.
Is there a way I can migrate these domain certificates into AWS Certificate Manager from Heroku, e.g. without having to go through the typical validation process for each one of them? The main Heroku app domain is one which is going to be pointed to AWS via API Gateway and at that point all of those custom domains will fail because they're not registered in AWS API + Certificate Manager.
Conversely the AWS Certificate Manager requires a specific CNAME record and value to be set on a domain in order for it to generate certificates for that domain. Until that happens, I do not see a way to use things like API Gateway or ELB with said domain.
There is absolutely nothing stopping you from creating the ACM validation CNAME records in your DNS service, to complete the creation of the certificate in ACM, while still leaving all your current DNS records in place. The ACM validation record is just a new DNS record, it doesn't replace any of your existing records, and it is only used for validation that you own the domain name, it isn't used for actual routing of any network requests.
Is there a way I can migrate these domain certificates into AWS Certificate Manager from Heroku, e.g. without having to go through the typical validation process for each one of them?
You have to go through the validation for each one, there is no getting around that. You could script it if you have a lot of them.
The main Heroku app domain is one which is going to be pointed to AWS via API Gateway and at that point all of those custom domains will fail because they're not registered in AWS API + Certificate Manager.
This is incorrect. You don't have to "register a domain to AWS Certificate Manager" in order to validate the certificate and get the certificate. ACM isn't validating that you have a domain pointing to an AWS API before it issues you the certificate. It is just validating that you own the domain name, via a new CNAME record that is only used for domain ownership validation.
I suggest you start the certificate creation process in ACM, and look at the CNAME record it asks you to create. You will see that it is totally unrelated to any of your current DNS records, and does not conflict with them.
I am posting this here to help others facing this problem as I could not find any useful information on the web.
If you have mapped your ACM certificate to an end-point (EC2, ELB, EKS service.. whatever) You will need to enable
CertificateTransparencyLoggingPreference
Else you will get:
NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED
Error in chrome. To do this via the aws-cli, the command is:
aws acm update-certificate-options --certificate-arn <ARN of ACM certificate> --options CertificateTransparencyLoggingPreference=ENABLED
I have provided the full response from AWS support as the answer, as this contains even more information.
This is Vivek from AWS Containers team. I will assist you on this
case.
From the case description, I understand that you requested an ACM
certificate and created ELB(service load balancer) behind which you
are running nginx pods in EKS cluster example-EKS-CLUSTER-dev.
When accessing the site https://test-aws.example.co/ from browser you
are getting error as below:
Error: NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED
You would like to use a third party CA such as lets encrypt to issue
free SSL certificate for your domains. You do not want to move the
domain to Route53.
You wish to know how to to do this and achieve https.
Please let me know if my understanding is correct.
Regarding the error ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED, this error
is thrown by Chrome browser when it can not find CT(certificate
transparency) logs.
For Google Chrome to trust the certificate, all issued or imported
certificates must have the SCT information embedded in them.
By default ACM logs all new and renewed certificates. However, it
provides option to opt out from AWS API or CLI.
You may find more about this on link [1].
I checked the load balancer mapped to the domain “test-aws.example.co”.
It is mapped to ELB
abce6962e05794f36a23435db3f1837d-1755308045.eu-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com
which uses ACM certificate
arn:aws:acm:eu-west-2:150737547637:certificate/f932b11d-af17-4023-be41-045c6fcc5e86
I checked this certificate and found that the option
“CertificateTransparencyLoggingPreference” is disabled.
You may enable transparency on the certificate to fix the issue by
running following command:
aws acm update-certificate-options --certificate-arn --options
CertificateTransparencyLoggingPreference=ENABLED
Once the certificate is updated with
CertificateTransparencyLoggingPreference as enabled, the issue will
resolve i.e. you should not longer receive the error
NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED when accessing the site
over https.
Regarding your other query, i.e. how to use a third party certificate
such as LetsEncrypt with ELB for https, you may obtain the desired
certificate(get it issued from desired CA) and import it in ACM or
IAM. Once the third party certificate is imported in ACM/IAM, it can
be associated with the https listener of ELB similar to how you
associate certificate issued by ACM(by using annotation
service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert in service
definition yaml with value as the ARN of imported certificate).
Please find the steps to import certificate in ACM on link [2]. The
steps to import a certificate in IAM can be found on [3].
I'm in the process of moving from another cloud provider. Currently I'm just testing in the default environment that has a url looking like this:
http://example-env-1.us-east-1.elasticbeanstalk.com
I'm trying to get SSL/HTTPS working for this address. I then plan using a CNAME to redirect to this address and eventually move the nameservers over completely.
However, after setting everything else up successfully I get to the point of adding the certificates and it just says "failed":
And even though I have my actual "example.com" ssl certificate successfully issued nothing shows up in the load balancer certificate selection dropdown (and yes I have refreshed):
How do I enable SSL using the Certificate Manager?
That's because you are trying to request a cert for the elasticbeanstalk.com domain. You will not be able to get a cert for that domain as you are not the owner of it :). Nor can you setup https for the default elastic beanstalk domains they give you.
You should use ACM to get a certificate for your custom domain, the one you plan on making a CNAME record for.
Example:
If you were to own say the domain amyneville.com. You could create a cert through ACM for that domain.
If you use your custom domain, you do NOT need a to get a cert for the elasticbeanstalk.com domain.
A couple more things:
You cannot create a CNAME record on a TLD (amyneville.com). You can create the CNAME record for www.amyneville.com. So if you want to use the CNAME approach you will have to create a non-www redirect to www..
But better then a CNAME would be to use an A record and point it to the elastic beanstalk resource that was setup. So the load balancer that was created for you, use it's A record.
Last but not least, you cannot apply the ACM cert through the elastic beanstalk console. Instead you will have to use the AWS CLI tools. Here's a link on how to do it: https://stackoverflow.com/a/35173500/1445460
I was looking for this myself and found this useful blog post from one of the Amazon team ...
https://medium.com/#arcdigital/enabling-ssl-via-aws-certificate-manager-on-elastic-beanstalk-b953571ef4f8#.frcj0rj4t
Whilst you can't use the console to select the certificate as stated in your question you can use the Elastic Beanstalk CLI to set the certificate to one you have created in Certificate Manager.