AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is an AWS cloud service that simplifies the provisioning, management, and deployment of Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates. It handles the complexity of purchasing, uploading, and renewing certificates, integrating seamlessly with…

Key facts

First appeared: 2016
Category: technology
Problem solved: AWS Certificate Manager was created to eliminate the historically complex, manual, and error-prone process of obtaining, installing, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates for web applications and services. It automates the entire lifecycle, reducing operational overhead and the risk of certificate expiration outages.
Platforms: AWS Cloud

Related technologies

Route 53
Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
Amazon CloudFront
AWS App Mesh
AWS Amplify
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon EC2 (indirectly via load balancers)

Notable users

Startups and SMBs building on AWS
Any enterprise utilizing AWS for web applications and services
E-commerce platforms, SaaS providers, media companies hosted on AWS