Automate public TLS certificate issuance with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager | Amazon Web Services
If you manage TLS certificates for your applications, you know the challenge: certificates expire, and when they do, your customers see errors or your service goes down. As certificate validity periods get shorter (the Certification Authority (CA)/Browser Forum mandates reduced maximum validity to 100 days starting March 2027, and to 47 days by 2029), manual renewal processes become untenable. You need automation.
Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) is an open protocol for requesting, renewing, and revoking TLS certificates without human intervention. It’s the same protocol behind Let’s Encrypt, and it’s supported by dozens of clients across every platform.
Today we’re announcing ACME support for public certificates in AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). ACM now provides a fully managed ACME server endpoint that works with any ACMEv2-compatible client, such as Certbot, cert-manager for Kubernetes, acme.sh, or any other client you already use. You can issue public TLS certificates...
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