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.
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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.
We are running an Apache web server on a single AWS Amazon Linux EC2 instance and we want to configure HTTPS on the web server. Either we configure an application load balancer on AWS and configure HTTPS on the ELB, or we purchase an SSL/TLS certificate from GoDaddy and configure it in the web server.
Which option is best for us in terms of long-term costs?
The cost of the Go Daddy SSL ultimately comes down to the configuration such as duration of certificate and whether its single domain, multi domain or using wildcard. You also have the option for a free SSL using certbot if cost is a factor.
Application Load Balancer is not the only service that can use ACM, you can also use a CloudFront distribution in front of a server (or load balancer) and attach your ACM certificate to it.
By using ACM you will no longer have to worry about rotation of the SSL, the renewal when close to expiry or copying it to new resources that you create.
If this is a small personal project I would suggest to go with a free certbot SSL, if its professional or a project you see expanding with additional resources I would suggest using ACM as it will make SSL management across resources easier to maintain.
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.
firstly this is my first experience installing an SSL/TLS cert so please forgive my ignorance/innocence on the topic.
I have an EC2 instance set up with a load balance running in the EU (Ireland) region, unfortunately the AWS Certificate Manager isn't available yet (any plans to introduce it there?? :) ), so I am getting a cert and installing it myself. My website will be using Stripe, which says you have to use SSl and I am just wondering if the positive SSL from Comodo will be enough? I don't really have the cash for $100+ EV cert at the moment. I know that might be a question for Stripe, but someone might know.
The part that I am wondering about AWS is, if I get the positive SSL cert and upload it through the AWS console to IAM (by adding a HTTPS listener to the load balancer), do I then have to install the certificate on my actual EC2 instance also, or is just doing it once through the console enough? Does that just mean that the https will be from a users browser to my load balancer, and not from my load balancer to my server? If I am going to have payments through my site is this a bad set up? Should I be getting a different cert?
Is just installing the positiveSSL cert through the console enough that my site will now be accessible through https://example.com and it doesn't have the green lock, or will it still be http://example.com and the HTTPS stuff just goes on in the background.
Sorry if this is an annoying question / doesn't make sense. I am just trying to wrap my head around it all. Thanks!
Stripe details this well:
Do I need to use SSL/TLS on my payment pages?
Yes ... It's more secure
and
What if I don't want to set up SSL/TLS yet?
You can test your page--but not live transactions--before installing your SSL/TLS certificate. You don't need to enable HTTPS until you're ready to go live.
To test live transactions without your own SSL/TLS certificate, you could host your site with a provider that provides a secure subdomain. For example, Heroku allows you to host at https://yourapp.heroku.com.
Ultimately, your site doesn't need to be PCI compliant, as Stripe handles all the credit card information. Clearly they don't set a "stripe compliant" standard for the SSL cert.
I have an EC2 instance which runs a website I want to add an SSL certificate for. From Amazon's documentation and other sources the only way they have stated an SSL certificate can be added is through:
Cloudfront
Elastic Load Balancing
I am not already using these for my website due to the added cost of these services. Is there another method of adding an SSL certificate without using Cloudfront or ELB? Thanks.
If you want to use SSL on a EC2 instance directly, you must obtain and install a certificate through the application running on your instance, (e.g. Apache, Nginx). There is nothing special required because your instance is running on AWS.
You will not be able to use the free certificates provided by Amazon Certificate Manager, they can not be exported for use with services other than ELB and CloudFront.
I would take a look at using Let's Encrypt. It's free and you can automate the renewal process.
https://letsencrypt.org
If you are running Bitnami (a common occurrance), there is an article here that describes WHERE the files are. This cost me HOURS, until I found the link.
Basically, if you can't find Apache or Nginx, look in /opt/bitnami/.
Then, you can install the cert, bundle and key files in /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf, and set up the vhost in /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf.
There is NOTHING in the AWS docs that mentions any of this.