SSL Certificate

Hello Monica,

Thank you for posting your question on the AWS Repost, my name is Rochak and it will be a pleasure assisting you with this today.

I understand you have purchased the domain name from third party provider and would like to know if you can generate SSL from AWS. Please, let me know if my understanding is incorrect.

If you have already purchased the domain from third party providers, you can generate SSL certificate from the same provider and then you can import that certificate into AWS Certificate Manager. [1]

Please note that to import third-party issued TLS/SSL certificate into ACM, you must provide the certificate, its private key, and the certificate chain. [2]

Your certificate also include the prerequisites for importing certificates which are provided here.[3]

I hope this helps. If you need further info, let me know in the comments; otherwise I'd appreciate if you mark my answer as "accepted".

Kind regards, Rochak from AWS

References:

[1] Importing certificates into AWS Certificate Manager https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/import-certificate.html

[2] How can I import a third-party issued TLS/SSL certificate to ACM? https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/import-acm-tls-ssl-certificate

[3] Prerequisites for importing certificates https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/import-certificate-prerequisites.html

Hi Monica,

You can use either of them.

If you plan on hosting on aws, ACM May be an easy choice as already embedded, native and lots of docs integrating it with route53.

On the other hand, you can use existing ssl too, and you may just use domain validation: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center/route-53-verify-domain-with-third-party

Hope it helps ;)

Hey Monica,

just complementing both previous answers, you can use as mentioned, both options just mind that ACM is supported on specific services only. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/acm-services.html