# AWS Certificate Manager Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [SSL & TLS Certificate Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/ssl-tls-certificate-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 58 ## About AWS Certificate Manager AWS Certificate Manager is a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites. ## AWS Certificate Manager Reviews ### 1. A Must-Have Tool for Secure AWS Deployments **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sambhav J. | SDE 2, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2026 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** AWS Certificate Manager makes SSL/TLS management extremely simple and reliable. I really like the automatic certificate provisioning, renewal, and seamless integration with AWS services like ELB, CloudFront, and API Gateway. It removes the manual effort and risk involved in certificate expiration, which is critical for production systems. The fact that public certificates are free and managed entirely by AWS adds great value, especially for scaling applications securely without operational overhead. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** One limitation of AWS Certificate Manager is that certificates cannot be easily exported when using AWS-managed public certificates, which makes it less flexible for use outside the AWS ecosystem. Additionally, managing certificates across multiple regions can be a bit confusing, as certificates are region-specific (except for CloudFront). More advanced use cases, such as custom validation workflows or deeper visibility into renewal processes, could also benefit from improved tooling and reporting. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Certificate Manager solves the complexity and risk of manually managing SSL/TLS certificates, including generation, validation, renewal, and expiration tracking. By automating these processes, it eliminates downtime caused by expired certificates and reduces operational effort. This benefits us by improving security, ensuring continuous HTTPS availability, and allowing the team to focus more on application development instead of certificate maintenance. It also scales effortlessly with growing infrastructure, making it ideal for production and high-traffic environments. ### 2. "Amazon Certificate Manager: Boosting Web Security with Seamless SSL/TLS Management" **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivangani T. | DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** - Easily Manage and Deploy TLS Certificate - Supports Both Private and Public Certificate - Freely available for public TLS Certificate - Automatic TLS Certificate Renewal **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** - It does not intergrate with most commonly used Service Amazon EC2. - It integrats with very limited services. - We can use AWS Certificate Manager only inside AWS. - For Importing Public Certificate It does not include autorenewal of certifications. - Although It has option to generate Certificates outside of ACM and then import it But We can not export ACM Certificate to anywhere outside AWS. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Certificate Manger is solving a lot of Problems, Few are listed belows - It Provides in-flight encryption which is very helful for my website using https protocol. - It easily integrates with load balancer from where I can easily access my website hosted on EKS and ECS cluster - It easily integrates with CloudFront, in which request are routed through Gobally Available Edge Location Thus improving Latency. ### 3. Simple place to Manage all SSL Certificates **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** preethi S. | Cloud Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Able to integrate SSL CERTIFICATES with Aws services like Elb , cloudfront easily. We can install 3rd party certificates bought outside Aws Iin manager. Able to create notifications when certificates validity going to be over. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There is no centralized service for all regions , we need to import SSL certificates individually to different regions. Say if we are using N.virgina region and ohio region we 2 times for respective regions **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to configure Elb to accept traffic on 443 port as well as helps to serve data securely on cloudfront. ### 4. ACM HAS SIGNIFICANTLY SIMPLIFIED SSL/TLS CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT IN MY AWS ENVIRONMENT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep M. | Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** EASE OF USE ACM SIMPLIFIES THE PROCESS OF PROVISIONING MANAGING AND DEPLOYING SSL/TLS CERTIFICATES FOR YOUR AWS RESOURCES. EASE OF IMPLEMENTATION, INTEGRATION IS SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATED WITH OTHER AWS SERVICES, EASY-TO-SECURE RESOURCES, AWS CF, ELB, AND APIS. GLOBAL COVERAGE ACM SUPPORTS CERTIFICATES IN MULTIPLE REGIONS MAKING IT SUITABLE, FOR FREQUENCY OF USE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS. CUSTOMER SUPPORT **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** LIMITED TO AWS - ACM IS DESIGNED TO BE USED WITHIN THE AWS ECOSYSTEM. NO WILDCARD SUPPORT OR CERTIFICATES THAT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATES FOR SUBDOMAINS. REGIONAL LIMITATIONS CREATED IN ONE AWS REGION MAY COMPLICATE MULTI-REGION DEPLOYMENTS. DEPENDENCY ON AWS USING ACM MAY LOCK YOU INTO AWS SERVICES MAKING IT LESS SUITABLE FOR A MULTI-CLOUD **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** SIMPLIFIED CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND DEPLOYING SSL/TLS, AUTOMATIC RENEWAL-REDUCING THE RISK OF MANUAL INTERVENTION, COST SAVINGS-PURCHASING CERTIFICATED FROM THIRD PARTY VENDORS, AWS LEAD SUBSTANTIAL COST SAVING PLANS, ENHANCED SECURITY-PROTECTING SENSITIVE DATA CONFIDENTIALITY AND INTEGRITY, INTEGRATION WITH AWS SERVICES-AWS ACF, ELB, AWS API GATEWAY, GLOBAL COVERAGEAWS ENABLING IN MULTIPLE REGIONS AND IT SUPPORTS BUSINESS TO DEPLOY SECURE APLICATIONS GLOBALLY, OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCYALLOWING IT TERMS TO FOCUS ON CRITICAL TASK AND PROJECT ### 5. A centralised tool for certificate management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gonzalo H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The interface is quite friendly to use, it guides you during the whole process for creation, which is nice. It provides a comprehensive guide on what happens when you decide to go for different configuration options. It can detect the DNS changes super quickly, making iteration faster. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Maybe the least helpful thing is that it doesn't tell you that when creating a certificate that has more than one name, the DNS records can be the same, which is quite confusing. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having all my certificates in a centralised location, together with my AWS infrastructure. It makes integration of the SSL certificates much faster and simpler. ### 6. Public AWS Certificate MAnagemer usage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** We all know Certificate Manager is used for the secure communtion between two parties like iot devices and backend services. Aws Certificate manager is easy to use easy to create the cerficates, Using the certificate we can implementate our backend code easyly. and also easy integration with the golang we have prettified aws packages **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing, it was very easy to use. In my daily work life **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on iot product, It is know as obd in the hardware device it fetches the details from the car and send to the cloud. This data communication will be happend in the ssl connection - MQTT and aws sqs. For having ssl communication we uses the aws certificate manager. ### 7. Makes the management of SSL Certs very easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Auto renewal of certs and application to the loadbalancers and endpoiints where they are already installed. Takes away a lot of manual process involved with renewal and updating of ssl certs across many services. Ease of use and validation of certs , chain and keys prior to installation. autorenewal is a big plus. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** nothing so far. it works as it should and i haven't encountered any negative issues so far. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Certificate Manager solves the problem of manually updating SSL Certs across multiple managed services and infrastructure. ### 8. Must have feature for anybody in deployment field. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is quite easy to use and understand , Even for beginners. Proper implementation documents are available along with videos for better understanding and implementation. It's actual feature is the automated system which can purchase , renew or upload new SSL/TLS certificate. This makes the frequent need to handle certificates easy. Its integration with aws services as well as other services provided by other cloud providers or on-prem systems is easy as well as. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** The documentation needds to carry more examples according to use cases as these services are new and sometimes its quite tricky to integrate everything according to the needs. I needed to run multiple tests for a week before deploymant because my use case was not explained properly. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It resolved the issue of purchasing and renewing certificates again and again. Also it made the management of multiple cerificates easier for me as an administrator there were multiple certificate issued fromm my side and it was time consuming to verify and manage each of them seperately. With ACM , it was possible to manage everything from a single dashboard with proper tagging. ### 9. best place to store secrets **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** mugdha S. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** aws certificate manager let you store All the certificates at one place securely. Also, it auto renews when the certificate is going to expire,so it can avoid the downtime **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Limited to aws services only .overall its good **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It integrated with many aws services like ssl. Good app for managing the certificates and auto renew is best feature. ### 10. process simplify **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** most easy to use and renew and add certificates to AWS and manage **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing as of now,implementing and exploring it yet **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** we dont have the need to have separate servers for CA and separate login for addition , renewal of certificates, in a single service / console, all these factors taken care of ### 11. Effortless Handling of SSL Certs - Do it in the Modern Way! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gab K. | Senior Lead Engineer, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Easy to use, one time setup and automatically renew for you from the 2nd year onwards. You dont need to worry about managing your own private cert, saving you tones of times.Most importantly, if you dont need your own private CA, it's FREE! **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Only DNS/Email verification is available, you cant use http based/file based verification like what you do for LetsEncrypt **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** The need to periodically rotate SSL certs Alerting for expiring certs The ability to integrate SSL into other AWS services seamlessly ### 12. Best of ACM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mallikarjun B. | Vmware Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The best part is it handles creating ,storingand renewing private and public ssl/tsl certificate and certificate can also be imported for integrated AWS services. It protects infinite number of subdomain. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** You cannot use these certificate outside AWS **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It removes time consuming manual process of renewing and purchasing ssl/tls certificate ### 13. Another way to manage SSL certificates **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Banking | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is a service that makes it easy to provision, manage, and deploy SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and it automatically renews itself. Earlier when I was not familiar with the ACM I had to manually renew the certificate once it expires. Also, it integrates with ELB, and API Gateway seamlessly. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There are one or two things that I don't like about ACM. These are as follows: 1. It is not available in all regions 2. Still no wildcard support so I had to create an alternate certificate to cater to this issue. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are a lot of benefits that I am currently experiencing with the ACM. 1. Automatic renewal 2. Ease of integration with other AWS services 3. As it is AWS it provides security on top of that ### 14. Easy to acquire and provision TLS certificates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter v. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is easy to acquire new certificates and provision them - especially for serverless resources like API Gateway. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Auto validation via DNS is a bit tricky to get set up, but it works well once you have Route 53 configured correctly. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating TLS certs for API Gateway ### 15. good product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek S. | recruiter, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** AWS Certificate Manager help to make the process simple so its easy to us to obtaining, managing, and renew certificates. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is limited to AWS only. You cannot use ACM certificates for other cloud platforms or on-premise servers **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using AWS Certificate Manager we can easily renew all the certificates in one place which is best thing ### 16. Super easy to setup and configure. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Farhan A. | Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It's a bit confusing at first. But then it's the best tool to create certificates for your projects when on aws. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** DNS verification sometimes takes too long. Also sometimes some certificates need manual updates. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating CDNs with S3 and Cloudfront, Deploying apps with that needed SSL. ### 17. Aws certified Manager Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash P. | IT security analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** ACM is time saving, No additional charge, helps in manage and deployp public and private SSL TLS certificate **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Right now, there is nothing to dislike but in future as technologies like Artificial intelligence growing changes should be done **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple structure, easy to understand, removes error prone steps while uploading certificates. ### 18. AWS ACM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Showrya K. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It's very easy to manage ssl and TLS certificates using ACM. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing. Its quite easy to manage all the certificates at one place. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a ine stop solution for managing and renewing certificates. ### 19. Certificate Manager **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 13, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is helpful as ACM allows to install certificate on all the aws services and as it provides feee ssl/tls certificates. Easily to create and deploy any certificate. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** No issues found as if now it works as expected and can be configured easily **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps to create centralised certificate and can be easily configured on AWS. ### 20. Best certificate manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** aswath k. | System Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** If you are using AWS service then it is very easy to integrate certificate with certificate manager **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Not able to use in other cloud services. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saves time to integrate on different AWS services. Timing reminder and renemwal on certificate expire ### 21. MOST SECURED CERTIFICATE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahammad K. | Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Glad to say it's free service offered by aws for Aws Cloud resources. Easy intigration and validation also very simple. We can also attach single certificate for so many domains as well **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** If we have export option also that will be more helpful for future reference. Nothing to dislike but most of the time we love to use aws acm only so happy for that. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's protecting our underlying resources on th top of Loadbalancers , Domains, most safe and secure data ,and redirection issues also got resolved with this acm. Easy and efficient ### 22. Simple and elegant solution for working with AWS Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Ease of use - very user-friendly interface to create and manage certificates needed to secure connections and integrations, especially to other AWS services. Effectively solves the issues around integrating within AWS, importing external keys and certificates, allowing us to implement SSL on AWS services. As an added bonus, public certificates are also free. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Lack of automatic domain verification. Limited to AWS managed services only. Cannot find a way to generate automatic notification of certificate expiry, which seems like a fairly obvious feature. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Definitely highly recommended, user friendly solution for certificate management & SSL for all of your AWS service needs. Anything external to AWS, look elsewhere. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating with other AWS services and managing SSL certificates for our websites. Very straightforward process to renew certificates. Very user friendly and makes certificate renewal one less thing to worry about, increasing efficiency in the business. ### 23. Ease deploying SSL certificate on need basis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** When I want to deploy certificate on internal and external servers or sites, it just clicks away where you can configure the digital signature easily and will not impact much and will be deployed easily cost effective also **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** For older versions of windows like XP, it does not support SSL, hence needs to configure fix IP which attracts extra and sometime may not be cost effective and also requires custom certificate configuration **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me to secure the website by deploying the TLS so that man in the middle kind of attack can be mitigated and also support the latest version TLS and they are easy to implement ### 24. Senior DevOps Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen K. | SDE-3, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The best feature is we don't need to spend our time configuring SSL with domain manually. you can pass cert-manager name with the AWS ELB or any other AWS service like S3, ECS and your site will be protected with SSL **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There is no option to import your AWS certificate and reuse it in any other place **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** If you are using complete AWS services, then you can consider purchasing certificate and domain from AWS only **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** To secure my application with https ### 25. AWS Certificate manager: SSL certificate management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** ANurag T. | Software Engineer II, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 08, 2021 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Very easy to integrate with other AWS services i.e. Cloudfront, ElasticBeanstalk etc. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** It doesn't support automatic domain verification with other domain name services. Limited to AWS only, Certificates issued by ACM can be used with AWS managed services only. If your infrastructure is multi region then you'll need to issue SSL certificate for a single domain in each region. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** If you're using AWS extensively and your workloads are deployed on top of them and requires SSL implementation then it's very recommend to use it and also it's free of cost. AWS doesn't charge for issues and managing SSL certificates. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Implementation of SSL in managed AWS services in a single click! Free SSL certificates, No need to pay for Certificates and no maintenance required. ### 26. Fairly comfortable when working with Route 53 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Alon D. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Easy to create new domains and confirm using Route 53 automatically **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Cannot export certificates or use with any other system, problematic **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** TLS certificates that are automatically created and renewed for our web system ### 27. Works really good with the services but missing the automation when a cert is needed on a instance **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 08, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It works really nice with managed services such as api gateway and elastic / application load balancer. You get renewal automated with notifications when you have setup the trust between the service and route53 so you dont need to bother with certificate expire **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** When using instance its not easy (or possible out of the box) to get a certificate on a ec2 instance or docker containers, you need to use managed services **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** You should not bother with getting certificates externally for the managed services as you would need to handle renewal and expiration of the certificates **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** One shop for all certificates for managed services in aws with automated renewal so we dont need to bother with that and also see incidents regarding that ### 28. Simple and effective way for manage certificate in AWS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hung V. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** excellent certificate service provided by AWS, we just need to request the certificate for a Route53 domain from AWS and do validating our domain then it will be ready for use for free, We could use this certificate to enable SSL in our AWS Load balancer and AWS Cloud Front services. It supports auto-renew the certificate so reduce our effort on manage. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** We could not use this cert for our application running in EC2, the validating process is a little confusing **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** If your AWS system have ELB, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Beanstalk and API Gateway then AWS Certificate Manager is the best choice for HTTPS/TLS configuration, it is free and easy to setup, but AWS Certificate Manager does not support physical certificate so it could not use in EC2 **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We deploy our system in AWS with the applications are installed in EC2 Auto Scale Group and has Load Balancer with Route53, and we use CloudFront as CDN, we have requested certificates from AWS and apply to our services, it saves a lot of effort on buy, installs and manage the certificate ### 29. Easiest way of creating a SSL certificate **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monish K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** This Certificate can be used with any Rout53 DNS provider to host a secure HTTPS website, The setup and validation process are simple, AWS gives two type of validations, email validation and DNS validation in which we just have to add a Rout53 entry to get the certificate validated, to use it we can just add this received certificate in the ELB, over all the process of setting up and using is simple **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** the waiting time for the certificate is huge, if i have to make a immediate domain name change for my website then its not going to happen and If i am having a domain in AWS and i am requesting for a certificate for it, shouldn't it be immediate why should we go through the validation step , because the domain name provider is AWS it self **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have hosted lots of secure https websites for our business, we are a retail and online company , we save some time using the AWS services ### 30. Fast and secure certificates at AWS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ivan R. | development manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** What I like most about this service is how easy it is to create an ssl certificate which we can use for any server, and the way it integrates with other services amazon web services is very good because it greatly simplifies its application. Besides, I don't have to pay for the certificates and they are updated automatically saving us a lot of problems. And to have your domain registered or managed with route53 is easier because it creates the registration in your dns automatically, simplifying even more its usability. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** I find it a very useful tool and easy to use, I have no major drawbacks only that using several regions becomes a bit tedious because you need to create a certificate for each of the regions in which you have hosted resources. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** I recommend to anyone who is interested in creating ssl certificates that use the excellent tool provided by amazon web services called certificate manager. It allows you to create the certificates in an extremely easy way, keep track of your certificates and integrates very well with other AWS services, saving a lot of time and money. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** When using AWS we use this service to manage our ssl security certificates and thus be able to integrate them in a simple way with some of our tools or our customers as wordpress prestashop and odoo. ### 31. Easy and Free **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is easy to create, verify and use certificates if you are working with AWS ELB or CloudFront **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Cannot use issues certificates in EC2 directly. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Use DNS based verification to avoid approval process again after an year. The certificate issues is valid for an year and rotated automatically if DNS based verification is used. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** SSL setup is easy to solve without worrying about renewal. ### 32. Painless certificate management solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Easy provisioning, management, and deployment of SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS Cloud services. Certificates auto-renew, providing confidence all services will continue to work without the management overhead associated with typical certificate expiry. Also it's free!!!! **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Not much to dislike, perhaps only that management across regions can become a bit tedious as a certificate is required for each. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure access to our public web applications ### 33. Quick and easy issuing and deployment **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin H. | Director of Technology, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 03, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It's convenient to have domains that use Route53 automatically verified and a certificate issued. The certificate is then easy to attach to our load balancer. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Some externally managed domains take a little longer to validate. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Try how easy it is to issue 1 certificate. Especially to a domain that is already connected with Route53. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Eliminated the need to use a 3rd party issuer or worry about Let's Encrypt. While Let's Encrypt is easy, this is more convenient and easier to manage. ### 34. AWS Certificate Manager!! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** kalpesh d. | Cloud Architect and Application Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 13, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** i have 2-3 years of experience working with AWS Certificate Manager , i must say it's one of the coolest service provided by AWS for certification management purpose , by enabling this service you can get free SSL/TLS certificate for your business website , and in today's world this certification is must required for your business website to go live ,it's very much easy to integrate it with other AWS services , and it provides automatic renew feature which automatically renews all your existing certificates which are associated with your account and have crossed it's expiry date , you can also able to integrate with ELB and cloud front services easily ! ! **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** the quality of support is not so satisfying , the process of getting certificate is tie consuming ! ! **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** if you're looking to host you're website and wondering how to get security E Certificates then AWS Certificate Manager is the best choice for it and it's very cost-effective service too ! ! **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use AWS Certificate manager to manage our E-certificates associated with AWS account ! ### 35. Handy Center to store certificates. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anthony F. | solutions architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Certificate Manager makes it very easy to request and receive valid SSL certs for any servers that may need to be accessed externally. Utilizing this with route 53 and a load balancer I can authenticate any of my instances through a single external connection. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** I had to google how to associate a certificate to an ec2 instance since it was not clear that you could not attach the new certificate directly to an instance. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Give it a shot and see if it works for your needs, it wont be a waste of time. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are providing secure access to a myriad of services securely and in a much easier way to manage. ### 36. SSL Made Easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is FREE! This is a massive perk. Also, the ease of creating a certificate is astonishing. These certs plug directly into AWS products such as AWS API Gateway and ELB's. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** It's a little annoying to have to create a certificate for every region if doing cross-region stuff but it's not bad enough to outweigh the goods. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Certs for our load balancers. ### 37. It manages all certificates for your AWS resources !! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** alkesh g. | Cloud Architect, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 15, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** the best thing about it is -: it provides certificates like SSL/TLS free of cost , which is used to secure your website hosted using AWS cloud , and it's very easy to issue such certificates using AWS Certificate Manager we just need to request a certificate for website url and after validating the request you can enable SSL for your CloudFront distribution, it auto renews certificates , it's fully integrated with all other AWS services too , it manages the whole life cycle of Certificates by it's own thus it'll reduce your work in really big amount!! **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Some times it takes too much time to issue a certificate and plug it on to the dashboard !! **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** it's a free of cost , reliable , widely used and compatible with the AWS resorces Certificate management software, which reduce all the overheads of Certificate management lifecycle!! **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it to manage the life cycle of certificates for our AWS resources!! ### 38. best way to secure your website and manage various e certificates!! **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** parth s. | Cloud Architect, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** i have been using it for 2-3 years , so basically before hosting any kind of commercial website on AWS we need to buy some e certificate like SSL/TLS for getting https for your website , so erlier it was very difficult to host any commercial website and especially it was very hard to get those e certificates , but by using AWS Certificate Manager it's very easy to get it , especially it becomes very easy to manage these e certi's due to it's customized auto renew functionality , so it'll take only few clicks and it's done.. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** some times it takes long time to issue a request and quality of support is not up to the mark.. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Trust me it's widely used and very easy to use service for managing e certificates for your AWS instances .. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** we use it to manage the certificates for AWS infrastructure .. ### 39. SSL certificates are digital certificates that authenticate a website's identity and enable an encrypted connection. They are essential for securing data transfer between a user's browser and a web server, ensuring privacy and data integrity. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James C. | Sysops, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Simple and fast. Streamlined certification process. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing to be disliked, the provided solution is simple to use. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Reduce the complexity of the procedure

### 40. Amazing service, it changed the way you secure your http applications. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** This is one of best services, it automates the certificate handling. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** nothing. everything is really cool with this service. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buying, installing and rotaring certificates used to be a maintenance nightmare, expensive and unsecured. With certificate manager you don't have to deal with any of that. it is totally free and super secure. ### 41. Bye bye GoDaddy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The best part about ACM is that I don't have to pay for or renew certificates. Security should be this simple. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There's not much to dislike about ACM. It works, it's flexible, and it integrates with the AWS services I need it to. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Generation of dynamic SSL certificates for per-customer URLs. ### 42. Certificate Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The best is not only able to generate new certificates but you can import your existing certificates. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There is nothing much to dislike about the product, its a great way to generate and import certificates. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** NA **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** One place shop to have everything in AWS Cloud. ### 43. no automatic renewal for imported certs **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Broadcast Media | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** create a ew cert by amazon CA **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Very expensive CA by amazon, and its region based so we need to import the cert in every Region **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** its hard to import AWS Certs in to every region we use IAM server certs **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** SSL certs association with Elastic Load Balalncer ### 44. Love it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Auto-renewing forever - as long as you use domain verification **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Email verification goes to my IT dept to click, so I can't renew myself Also, can't use certs on EC2, e.g. nginx **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Use domain validation, not email validation **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less risk of outage due to expired certs ### 45. Easy to authenticate **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Wholesale | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** If you have your DNS in Route 53 is really easy to authenticate that you own the domain as CM will add the necessary DNS records for you **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Can be a bit tedious to add lots of SANs to a cert **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Sal certs on loadbalncers ### 46. Create R53 route automatically **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The automatic renewal process and ease of usage **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** If Certificate Manager detect that the domain is managed on Route 53 it should just issue the certificate without more verification **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Got rid of both wildcard certificate and short term life Letsencrypt ### 47. Good manager, needs more integration **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Ease of provisioning certificates, low cost **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Verification is cumbersome, should be able to verify domain at the parent level for future certificates. Should be able to do the route53 verification seamlessly if permissions are available. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Data encryption ### 48. best service to automate your renewals and ssl management **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** the whole load of managing the SSL certs taken care of **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** there is nothing i dislike about this product as we are using this product for long time and no ceoncers **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** enterprise wide ssl install and renewals ### 49. Quick and simple certificates for most of Amazon provided services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gary H. | Angel Investor, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2017 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Zero "installation" of the certificates. Once a certificate is requested/created it can be installed onto any AWS services simply through a pick list as a configuration option. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** No apex or root included in a wildcard. Most other certificate providers do this by default. E.g.: If you order a certificate for *.example.com it would include example.com itself. In the case of AWS it needs to be explicitly requested as a seaport entity. There may be use cases where this makes sense but it would be nice to make that opt-out instead of opt-in. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Be careful to explicitly include your root or apex zone in a wildcard certificate request **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly HTTPS for various sites. The AWS certificate manager covers off usage in static sites from an S3 bucket through to Elastic Load Balanced sites using EC containers. ### 50. ACM Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Automating the notification and acknowlegement of certificate renewals. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Setting up notifications can be a bit cryptic **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of certificate tracking and management ## AWS Certificate Manager Discussions - [What is ACM validations AWS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-acm-validations-aws) - 1 comment - [View AWS Certificate Manager pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-certificate-manager/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+06%3A25%3A45+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=9cdb53ff-ae6d-4c94-8ba6-0a3a5230f5b3&secure%5Btoken%5D=657e8526b1ea9e1de6345bf92e07f6fd56c092b171d1c47fc6f071f9c7698ff4&format=llm_user) ## AWS Certificate Manager Features **Administration** - Notifications - Warranty - Server License - Free Reissues **Functionality** - Certificate Discovery - Expiration Monitoring - Automated Certificate Operations - Policy And Role-Based Access Controls - Workflow - Protocol Support - Reporting And Search - Audit And Enforcement - Key Storage **Functionality** - Multi-Domain Support - Browser Support - Site Seal - AI Features **Security** - Domain Validated SSL - Issuance Speed - Encryption Strength - Extended Validation SSL - Organization Validated SSL ## Top AWS Certificate Manager Alternatives - [DigiCert CertCentral](https://www.g2.com/products/digicert-certcentral/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (31 reviews) - [DigiCert Trust Lifecycle Manager](https://www.g2.com/products/digicert-digicert-trust-lifecycle-manager/reviews) - 3.8/5.0 (11 reviews) - [Azure Key Vault](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-key-vault/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (46 reviews)