Saturday, 29 April 2017

Step 3 - Request a certificate

The Home Data Centre website needs secure access via HTTPS protocol, using a certificate signed by a known certificate authority. Amazon has AWS Certificate Manager to manage and deploy SSL and TLS Certificates.
  • Login to AWS Console with two-factor authentication.
  • Go to AWS Certificate Manager under the Security, Identity & Compliance.
  • Click the button "Request a certificate".
  • Specify "www.yourdomain.com" in the Domain Name field. 
  • The certificate will be needed when setting up HTTPS with the Elastic Beanstalk Load Balancer. 
  • Take a note of the certificate ARN (Amazon Resource Number). 
  • The Amazon certificates are free of charge for domains hosted by Amazon.
Tip: You should also consider requesting a certificate with a wildcard domain name, such as "*.yourdomain.com". This certificate can be handy in securing subdomains of your website, if any.

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