Hands-On Serverless Computing

SSL/TLS certificate

It is recommended to run your website on the HTTPS protocol. To be able to run your website on the HTTPS protocol, you will need an SSL/TLS certificate. AWS gives you the ability to create and manage SSL/TLS certificates through a service called AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). You can request a new certificate for your domain name and manage it in ACM. Public certificates are also free if you are going to use these certificates with ACM integrated services, such as Elastic Load Balancer or Amazon API Gateway resources. For the serverless web app, we will be using Amazon API Gateway and ACM will provide you with a free public certificate.

You can learn more about ACM at https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/.

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