Managing Certificates with AWS Certificate Manager
Certificate mismanagement costs organisations thousands in downtime and security breaches annually. This course cuts through the complexity of AWS Certificate Manager, teaching you to automate certificate provisioning, renewal, and lifecycle management in under half an hour—so your infrastructure stays secure without manual overhead.
AIU.ac Verdict: Ideal for DevOps engineers, cloud architects, and infrastructure teams who need to manage SSL/TLS certificates at scale on AWS. The 24-minute format is a strength for busy professionals, though you’ll want follow-up hands-on practice beyond the sandbox labs to truly master advanced scenarios.
What This Course Covers
You’ll explore AWS Certificate Manager’s core capabilities: requesting public and private certificates, validating domain ownership, automating certificate renewal, and integrating ACM with CloudFront, ALB, and API Gateway. The course walks you through the console, best practices for certificate lifecycle management, and how to avoid common pitfalls like expired certificates and validation failures.
Practical application focuses on real-world workflows: provisioning certificates for multi-domain environments, managing certificate dependencies across services, and setting up automated renewal pipelines. You’ll work through sandbox labs that simulate production scenarios, giving you confidence to implement ACM in your own AWS infrastructure without breaking existing deployments.
Who Is This Course For?
Ideal for:
- DevOps Engineers: Need to automate certificate provisioning and renewal across multiple AWS services and environments.
- Cloud Architects: Designing secure, scalable infrastructure and need to understand ACM’s role in SSL/TLS strategy.
- Infrastructure Teams: Managing AWS environments and want to eliminate manual certificate management overhead and reduce security risk.
May not suit:
- Complete AWS Beginners: Assumes familiarity with AWS console, IAM, and basic networking concepts; not an introduction to AWS itself.
- Enterprise PKI Specialists: If you manage complex, multi-tier certificate hierarchies or on-premises CAs, ACM’s managed approach may feel limiting.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long does Managing Certificates with AWS Certificate Manager take?
The course is 24 minutes long, designed for busy professionals who need focused, practical knowledge without lengthy theory.
Do I need AWS experience to take this course?
Yes—you should be comfortable navigating the AWS console and understand basic concepts like IAM and CloudFront. This isn’t an AWS fundamentals course.
Will I get hands-on practice?
Yes. Pluralsight includes sandbox labs where you can provision and manage certificates in a live AWS environment without affecting production.
Does this cover private certificates?
Yes. The course covers both public certificates (for internet-facing services) and private certificates (for internal communication and mTLS).
Course by Chad Smith on Pluralsight. Duration: 0h 24m. Last verified by AIU.ac: March 2026.
