AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a managed service that provisions, manages, and renews public and private TLS certificates. It is designed to secure AWS services by enabling HTTPS at no extra cost, including automatic certificate rotation. (source_page: 9, source_quote: "AWS Certificate Manager (ACM): Purpose: Create, manage, and deploy public and private TLS certificates. ... Cost: Free to use. Features: Managed automatic rotation for certificates issued via DNS validation.")
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) simplifies the use of SSL/TLS certificates to secure network communications.
ACM's purpose is to create, manage, and deploy public and private TLS certificates. It also handles the automatic rotation of these certificates.
ACM manages SSL/TLS certificates. It does not manage application data encryption keys.
ACM is designed for seamless integration with various AWS services to enable secure HTTPS communication.
ACM is perfect for TLS certificates deployed to supported AWS services. Commonly supported services include Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), CloudFront distributions, and Amazon API Gateway. For ELBs specifically, it is used for X.509 certificates for TLS/HTTPS.
AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is used for X.509 certificates on ELBs for TLS/HTTPS.
While ACM offers significant benefits for certificate management, it has specific limitations regarding service integration.
ACM does not directly associate certificates with EC2 instances.