We have AWS EC2 instance where we have hosting of our website and we have domain and SSL from godaddy with cloudflare for cache policy.
Now we want to integrate ssl with our website but we are clueless regarding how to do this process with cloudflare as there are three different service providers like AWS, Godaddy and Cloudflare so it would be great if someone could help us how to deal with that.
The question is too generic (you don't mention what web server, or OS are using), let alone mentioning there are tons of documentation already on how to set up SSL in the most popular web servers: Apache and Nginx. One thing that I suggest, is that, if you are using Elastic Load Balancing, then you can use ACM service to deploy an SSL certificate, and attach it to your load balancer. It's the easiest, and cheapest way to do it.
Here on how to deploy a free SSL certificate managed by AWS, and here on how to attach it to the load balancer.
if you are not using load balancing, or need to implement fully end-to-end encryption, or simply don't want to do it this way, you will probably need to look into how to set up SSL on the web server you are using. An example can be found in https://www.digicert.com/csr-ssl-installation/apache-openssl.htm, but since you didn't specify what OS or webserver you are using, we can't really say much.
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I have created a nodejs app and hosted it on aws ec2.
Enabled HTTPS, HTTP in the security. I purchased a domain from an external domain provider and connected nameservers using route53.
Now, when I am opening the domain it showing not secure. How Can I make it secure. I tried listen port in 443 but then domain was not opening.
Can Someone please help how to make it secure or provide some good documentation for begineers.
If you don't want use a load balancer to front your instance, then you have to get and install a third party SSL certificate on your instance for your domain.
A popular choice are certificates from https://letsencrypt.org/ (StackOverflow uses them as well). They also provide https://certbot.eff.org/ tool for easy installation and setup of the SSL certs on a variety of operating systems and servers.
My instance is a single instance, no load balancer.
I cannot seem to add a load balancer to my existing app instance.
Other recommendations regarding Elastic Load Balancer are obsolete - there seems to be no such service in AWS.
I do not need caching or edge delivery - my application is entirely transactional APIs, so probably don't need CloudFront.
I have a domain name and a name server (external to AWS). I have a certificate (generated in Certificate Manager).
How do I enable HTTPS for my Elastic Beanstalk Java application?
CloudFront is the easiest and cheapest way to add SSL termination, because AWS will handle it all for you through its integration with certificate manager.
If you add an ELB, you have to run it 24/7 and it will double the cost of a single instance server.
If you want to support SSL termination on the server itself, you're going to have to do that yourself (using your web container, such as apache, nginx, tomcat or whatever you're running). Its not easy to setup.
Even if you don't need caching, CloudFront is going to be worth it just for handling your certificate (which is as simple as selecting the certificate from a drop-down).
I ended up using CloudFront.
That created a problem that cookies were not being passed through.
I created a custom Caching Policy to allow the cookies, and in doing so, I also changed the caching TTLs to be very low. This served my purposes.
I have a node.js server I would like to deploy to AWS. My main site is example.com while the node server is on api.example.com
I am only using one EC2 instance (no load balancing) because I am only building an MVP and don't want to make things complicated.
I used Amazon Certificate Manager to register my domain name and I need to register api.example.com to also use https.
I right now have to put a CloudFront in front of my EC2 instance just so that I can use the ACM. This seems a little overkill since I don't need any of the caching benefits.
Is there any other way to do this?
You have 3 options:
Use CloudFront with SSL certificate from Amazon which doesn't bring any benefits for API that won't benefit from caching
Use Elastic Load Balancer with SSL certificate from Amazon. Load balancer will mantain HTTPS connection with client and communicate via HTTP with your EC2 server. You can follow this tutorial https://hackernoon.com/getting-a-free-ssl-certificate-on-aws-a-how-to-guide-6ef29e576d22
Or you can set up your certificate at EC2 instance directly. Here is how to do this with Nginx for example https://www.digicert.com/csr-ssl-installation/nginx-openssl.htm
EDIT: I have just realized that you could probably also use AWS API Gateway to point to your EC2 server API GateWay to server in ec2
I have an EC2, hosting a simple http server.
I want to make use of the HTTPS so to have my traffic hidden, but I made the mistake of buying a domain via AWS and to generate a certificate for it via AWS.
Mistake because it seems I cannot simply import that certificate in my EC2 (maybe because, if AWS gave me that cert as file, I could use it in any number of application of mine).
So, what I have to do in order to use it?
Move my web application to an elastic load balancer? Use a cointainer to host it?
What is the less expensive?
my team is creating an app that involves sharing bank details. For a feature that involves instant verification of bank accounts, we have used a third party vendor, Dwolla, who provide a secure interface for entering the bank account details.
This is from Dwolla:
https://developers.dwolla.com/resources/dwolla-js/instant-account-verification.html
Our app is hosted on AWS Server, EC2 instance on iis, S3 storage.
First, do I need to install SSL on AWS server?
If yes, how should I do it?
I have been looking for answers everywhere, but I can't find an exact resolution.
Please help.
To install the SSL certificate, it will depends on some specifics of your environment:
If you use a single instance with IIS you must adquire a SSL certificate from a external CA. It will cost you some money and they will guide you how to request and emit the certificate. With the certificate emitted you'll need to upload it to your os and configure the IIS to use it;
If you use a pool of instances behind a load balancer provided by AWS you can request a certificate from AWS for free and configure the load balancer to use the emitted certificate (https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/?nc1=h_ls).
If you do not use a AWS load balancer, you can create a AWS CloudFront Distribution (https://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/), use your IIS as origin and configure your free AWS Certificate in the distribution.
We started using PKISharp win-acme to get free LetsEncrypt SSL certificates for our IIS in EC2 and it works like a charm, auto-renew every 2-3 months without issue, very easy to setup from "dos" prompt (run as administrator)...
To help pkisharp do its job, keep your 80 and 443 binding on the same site, you can configure a "url rewrite" rule to redirect all 80 requests to 443.
The tool will add a task in the windows scheduler to handle the auto-renew.
We've been using certify (https://certifytheweb.com) with no issues on IIS. Free for less than 3 domains, cheap for up to 100 domains. Use this on all our servers. Turnkey solution with great debugging tools.