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Security via AWS Certificate Manager

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Security via AWS Certificate Manager

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- [Instructor] The next service that we're going to look at is the AWS Certificate Manager. So you use this service to provision, manage and deploy SSL and TLS certificates for AWS services. It's used to secure network traffic, and establish the identity of websites, for example. You can use it with EC2 elastic load balancers, CloudFront distributions, and APIs on API Gateway. SSL and TLS certificates, provisioned through the AWS Certificate Manager, are free. So to understand how this works, we're actually go to EC2. And we're going to work with load balancers. If you're not familiar, a load balancer is an object that you place in front of multiple EC2 instances, so that you can distribute traffic between them. Now how this relates to certificates is it's a common design that you will use this to host your website, for example, and you may want to secure that or to verify the authenticity via certificate. Previously, you were using a third-party company, like VeriSign, and getting…

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