[AWS] 3 steps to obtain a certificate for free

This is Nakagawa from the System Solutions Department.

I wrote an article about how to install ACM on AWS

In the first place, I had never obtained a certificate from ACM.

I happened to have the opportunity to obtain the certificate, and when I tried it, I was able to obtain the certificate for free in 3 steps.

1. Request a certificate from the ACM admin screen

2. Receive approval email

3. Approval procedure

 

I was able to obtain it more smoothly than I expected, so I would like to introduce it to you.

1. Request a certificate from the ACM admin screen

Select ACM from the list of AWS services and submit your certificate request.

 

2. Receive approval email

you will receive an email with "Certificate approval for domain name" to one of the following

• Email address registered in WHOIS
• admin@domain name
• administrator@domain name
• hostmaster@domain name
• postmaster@domain name
• webmaster@domain name

 

3. Approval procedure

In the email body, the sentence "To approve this request, go to Amazon Certificate Approvals at"

Go to the link provided in the next line and click the "I Approve" button to complete.

If you look at the ACM management screen again, a certificate for the target domain has been issued.

 

At the end

Certificates created with ACM can be used with ELB and CloudFront.

Despite being free, it is packed with useful features such as wildcard support and automatic updates.

If you plan to use certificates on AWS, please consider this as one of your options.

Thank you for reading to the end.