Can I use Amazon Certificate with my EC2 instance (website)?

Question

I have a website on EC2 instance, and I just created an Amazon certificate, but I am not sure that this is a regular SSL certificate. All I wanted was to have the green padlock for my website (HTTPS).

Is the Amazon Certificate made to do that? Or it's for other purposes, and I should use another SSL, such as Let'sEncrypt?

Thanks

Answer 1

You can only use an ACM certificate with specific AWS services (documented here):

• Elastic Load Balancing
• Amazon CloudFront
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Amazon API Gateway
• AWS CloudFormation

If you're hosting your website on EC2, you will need to set up either an ELB or CloudFront to use an ACM-managed certificate. If you don't want to do that (both are extra charges) then you'll need to use a certificate provided by someone else, such as Let's Encrypt.