Item: AWS Certificate Manager
Rating: 8
Author: ANurag Tamrakar

Overall Satisfaction with AWS Certificate Manager

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We're using AWS Certificate Manager to Issue, renew and manage SSL Certificates in AWS Cloud. It was difficult for us to use SSL Certificates issues by third-party vendors and implement SSL on AWS Services. AWS Certificate Manager made it easier using it we can easily implement SSL on all other AWS Services such as EC2, ELB, CloudFront, Lambda, etc.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Issue, Renew and Validate SSL Certificates.
Allows us to integrate it with other AWS Services.

Cons

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 you are having multi-region infrastructure then you'll need to issue an SSL certificate for a domain in each region.

Most Important Features

Implementation of SSL in managed AWS services in a single click!
Free SSL certificates, No need to pay for Certificates and no maintenance required.
ACM can validate and issue an SSL Certificate in a single click If your domain is managed by Route53.

Return on Investment

We're saving our spent on SSL certificates As it dosen't costs at all.
Limited to AWS only, Certificates issued by ACM can be used with AWS managed services only.
It doesn't support automatic domain verification with other DNS management systems.

Alternatives Considered

GoDaddy and Cloudflare

Key Insights

Do you think AWS Certificate Manager delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with AWS Certificate Manager's feature set?

Yes

Did AWS Certificate Manager live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of AWS Certificate Manager go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy AWS Certificate Manager again?

Yes

Likelihood to Recommend

If you're using AWS extensively and your workloads are deployed on top of managed AWS services and you require SSL implementation then it's highly recommended to use it and also it's free of cost AWS doesn't charge a penny for AWS Certificate Manager. Limited to AWS only, Certificates issued by ACM can be used with AWS managed services only you can't use certificates outside AWS this is the only drawback.

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AWS Certificate manager (ACM) : SSL certificate management