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AWS Private CA

Short Summary: Issue certificates from a highly available, cloud-managed Private CA.

  • AWS Credentials: Access Key/Secret Key or IAM Role (if running on EC2).
  • Permissions Policy:
    {
    "Effect": "Allow",
    "Action": [
    "acm-pca:IssueCertificate",
    "acm-pca:GetCertificate",
    "acm-pca:ListCertificateAuthorities"
    ],
    "Resource": "*"
    }
  1. Navigate: Admin > CA Gateways > Add New.
  2. Select Provider: AWS Private CA.
  3. Region: e.g., us-east-1.
  4. CA ARN: The ARN of your Private CA (e.g., arn:aws:acm-pca:us-east-1:123456789012:certificate-authority/...).
  • High Availability: Inherits AWS SLA.
  • Short-Lived Certs: Fully supported.
  • Revocation: Supported via CRL/OCSP managed by AWS.