What's the soundest way to use HTTPS on a single instance EBS environment?

Question

This is for our staging environment. It's supposed to be as close as possible to production, but it will never need more than 1 instance.
2 solutions come to my mind:
- Switch to a load balanced environment with only 1 max instances, and setup HTTPS on the load balancer (like I did for prod)
- Setup HTTPS directly on the EC2 instance associated with the EBS environment.

I'm just not sure which is the simplest and most efficient method.
I'm also wondering if switching to load balanced would come with increased cost, even if there's just 1 instance...
Thanks in advance!

Accepted Answer

Hello.  
As you are aware, there is a fee for using a load balancer.  
I think the easiest way to set up SSL is to use ACM and set it up in the ALB.  
The same procedure can be used to configure the settings as they have already been configured in the production environment.  
In addition, it is useful to have the same configuration in the verification environment and the production environment to isolate problems caused by differences in the environments when troubleshooting.  
If cost is a priority, it is better to set up an SSL certificate directly on EC2.

What's the soundest way to use HTTPS on a single instance EBS environment?

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