Introducing AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority

Posted on: Apr 4, 2018

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) Private Certificate Authority (CA) is a managed private CA service that enables you to easily and securely manage the lifecycle of your private certificates. ACM Private CA provides you a highly-available private CA service without the upfront investment and ongoing maintenance costs of operating your own private CA. You can now use ACM’s certificate management capabilities to manage public and private certificates centrally. With ACM Private CA developers can now deploy private certificates for internal resources programmatically using APIs. You get the flexibility to create private certificates for applications that require custom certificate lifetimes or resource names.

ACM Private CA is available in in US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), EU (Frankfurt) and EU (Ireland).

Public and private certificates provisioned through AWS Certificate Manager for use with ACM-integrated services, such as Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon API Gateway services are free. You pay for the AWS resources you create to run your application. AWS Certificate Manager Private Certificate Authority has pay as you go pricing. You pay a monthly fee for the operation of each ACM Private CA until you delete it. You also pay for the private certificates you create and export from ACM, such as those used with EC2 or on-premises servers or the ones you issue directly from your Private CA by creating the private key yourself.

To learn more about ACM Private Certificate Authority, see ACM Private Certificate Authority.