When I deploy apps on Google App Engine, they automatically get use of the appspot.com wildcard SSL cert allowing me to have https secure URLs.
Does AWS give you this option, or is installing your own SSL cert the only option?
Amazon only provides free SSL certs through the ACM service, which is currently restricted to CloudFront distributions and Elastic Load Balancers that you have configured with your own custom domain name.
There are other ways to obtain a free SSL cert if you own your own domain name, such as CloudFlare and Let's Encrypt.
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I try to configure https on ALB with default amazon subdomain: some-unique-path.elb.amazonaws.com
The problem is that I can't find how to generate the ssl certificate for this domain: Amazon Certificate Manager does not allow to generate certificates for amazonaws subdomains.
Is there any way to make it without buying custom domain and configuring it for ALB?
To use ACM you must have domain which you control. From docs:
Before the Amazon certificate authority (CA) can issue a certificate for your site, AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) must verify that you own or control all of the domain names that you specified in your request.
There are some free domain providers which you could maybe use, but you have to have domain under your control. You can't use some-unique-path.elb.amazonaws.com, because this is AWS-owned domain and you have no rights to it.
I'm creating a simple website. The frontend is stored in S3, and hosted by Cloudfront. I managed to add a trusted SSL certificate to my frontend domain (www.xyz.com) using AWS Certificate Manager.
The backend is running on an EC2 instance. I added a self-signed certificate to it. I'm able to hit the APIs using Postman but the requests from frontend are failing because of the self-signed certificate.
I checked the AWS Certificate Manager again if it could provide me with a cert for my backend server, but it requires a domain. My server is running on an IP and port, and I couldn't find any service that provides a certificate for an IP. I don't want to spend extra money to get a domain for my backend.
So how do I get a trusted SSL certificate for a backend server, running on something like 10.12.12.10:9000?
couldn't find any service that provides a certificate for an IP.
This is because you need domain to obtain valid public certificate. You can't register SSL cert for an IP. But if you already have your own domain www.xyz.com, you can get a certificate for its subdomain, e.g. api.xyz.com.
However, ACM certs can't be used on instances. Thus, you need to get a valid public SSL cert from a third party. A popular choice is https://letsencrypt.org/ with certbot which provides free SSL certificates. By the way, StackOverlow is using letsencrypt for its SSL cert provider, thus its widely used and trusted ssl provider.
I created an SSL certificate last night for use with an API (Tomcat, Spring Boot) on AWS Elastic Beanstalk using instructions provided by Amazon Certificate Manager.
When creating the cert, I entered the URL of my static site that calls the API, which is hosted by GoDaddy. ACM sent an email to my URL which I opened and approve and I now see the cert as issued, by Amazon, in my certs. I am also able to select it when I configure HTTPS for my EB load balancer. I am not able to export this cert though as it isn't private.
My question is, how is domain name used? I think I'm a little confused about how to use SSL on both my API and my static site AS WELL as the small bit of static content I'll host out of Tomcat.
Thanks.
ACM certs can only be used with AWS services - Cloudfront (if the cert is issued in us-east-1) and regionally on the classic load balancer and application load balancer.
You cannot export the cert for use in other products, so if you wanted to have Tomcat handle SSL you would need to get either a commercial cert or use something like Let's Encrypt.
If you have multiple host names you want to protect, you have different options.
You can get one cert per hostname if they are running on completely separate infrastructure; you can also have multiple host names in a single cert - even if there are multiple domains; and finally you can get a wildcard cert.
I am not into SSL at all, so bear with me please. I have no idea how to start to actually solve my problem.
Current situation:
1x Webserver with Webspace for a Website and it includes a Domain Administration, also to order SSL Certificates etc.
1x Different Webserver at Amazon Web Services with a PHP-based Software on it with Login etc.
A Subdomain that I created in the Domain Administration is pointing via DNS to the IP of the AWS.
What I need:
I want an https Connection (SSL) for the Subdomain that is pointing to the AWS so that the connection/login is secure.
My question is what I have to do on the side where I have the Domain Administration and after that what I have to do on the side of the AWS.
Thank you so much!
You have several options in hand,
If you already have a SSL certificate purchased, you can include it inside the webserver (e.g; configure apache for SSL).
If you plan to use free SSL certificates from Amazon, you can use one of the following options after creating a SSL certificate in AWS Certificate Manager.
Create a AWS CloudFront Distribution and attach the SSL certificate there while configuring an origin to forward traffic to the specific web server. However, you need to create the SSL certificate in North Virginia region and there won't be any upfront costs for CloudFront). CloudFront acts as a proxy and you can explicitly instruct to cache the static content reducing the load for web server and improving the performance.
The other option is to create a Application Load Balancer (ALB) and attach the SSL certificate there ( Create the SSL certificate in the same region) while forwarding traffic to the web server. However, this will add a monthly reoccurring costs for the ALB.
All you need to do is, on AWS ACM (AWS Certificate Manager) procure a certificate for your subdomain and use AWS ELB to use the certificate and point to the AWS webserver.
After this use the ELB IP in the DNS settings.
There are other options too like procuring the subdomain certificate and installing it on the webserver on AWS.
I brought a domain (not in AWS) and parked it on AWS. I also got a certificate in AWS Certificate manager, for a domain I use for a shopify store.
On the shopify admin, I see that SSL isn't available for the purchased domain.
Is there a way to connect the domain with the certificate if the server is actually on shopify ?
ACM certificates are only for use with CloudFront and Elastic Load Balancers. You could possibly setup a CloudFront distribution in front of your Shopify domain in order to use the certificate that way, but it's probably more trouble and expense than it is worth.
You might look at moving your DNS hosting to CloudFlare and using their free SSL service.
The SSL certificate generated from ACM are only for use into AWS service who you cannot move move that certificate to a Shophify server. Please refer this.
https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/faqs/