AWS Security Blog
Category: AWS Private Certificate Authority
How to enforce multi-party approval for creating Matter-compliant certificate authorities
Customers who build smart home devices using the Matter protocol from the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA) need to create and maintain digital certificates, called device attestation certificates (DACs), to allow their devices to interoperate with devices from other vendors. DACs must be issued by a Matter device attestation certificate authority (CA). The CSA mandates multi-party […]
Use AWS Private Certificate Authority to issue device attestation certificates for Matter
In this blog post, we show you how to use AWS Private Certificate Authority (CA) to create Matter device attestation CAs to issue device attestation certificates (DAC). By using this solution, device makers can operate their own device attestation CAs, building on the solid security foundation provided by AWS Private CA. This post assumes that […]
How to incorporate AWS Private CA into your existing Windows Active Directory Certificate Services
June 25, 2025: As of Sept 28, 2022, AWS has changed the name of ACM Private CA to AWS Private CA. This post has been updated to reflect this change. Using certificates to authenticate and encrypt data is vital to any enterprise security. For example, companies rely on certificates to provide TLS encryption for web […]
How to securely create and store your CRL for AWS Private CA
June 25, 2025: As of Sept 28, 2022, AWS has changed the name of ACM Private CA to AWS Private CA. This post has been updated to reflect this change. December 4, 2023:We’ve updated the new Amazon CloudFront security feature Origin Access Control in place of the Origin Access Identity. December 14, 2021:The code in […]