AWS Certificate Manager

• Certificate Manager is a service that allows easily provision, manage & deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates.

• Private certificates identify resources within an organization, such as applications, services, devices & users.

• ACM provides Domain Validated (DV) public certificates for use with websites and applications that terminate SSL/TLS.

• ACM enables users to manage the lifecycle of their public and private certificates.

• A root CA is a cryptographic building block and root of trust upon which certificates can be issued.

• ACM can provide certificates with wildcard domain names.

• ACM certificates can not be used for code signing or email encryption.

• Certificates issued through ACM are valid for 13 months.

• Certificates managed in ACM use RSA keys with a 2048-bit modulus and SHA-256.

• ACM does not allow Unicode encoded local language characters however, ACM allows ASCII-encoded local language characters for domain names.