--- title: AWS Certificate Manager Reviews meta_title: 'AWS Certificate Manager Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 58 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS Certificate Manager works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 58 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-08-09' parent_category: name: Confidentiality url: https://www.g2.com/categories/confidentiality --- # AWS Certificate Manager Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [SSL & TLS Certificate Tools](https://www.g2.com/categories/ssl-tls-certificate-tools) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 58 ## About AWS Certificate Manager AWS Certificate Manager is a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites. ## AWS Certificate Manager Reviews ### 1. Simple place to Manage all SSL Certificates **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** preethi S. | Cloud Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 16, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Able to integrate SSL CERTIFICATES with Aws services like Elb , cloudfront easily. We can install 3rd party certificates bought outside Aws Iin manager. Able to create notifications when certificates validity going to be over. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There is no centralized service for all regions , we need to import SSL certificates individually to different regions. Say if we are using N.virgina region and ohio region we 2 times for respective regions **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to configure Elb to accept traffic on 443 port as well as helps to serve data securely on cloudfront. ### 2. ACM HAS SIGNIFICANTLY SIMPLIFIED SSL/TLS CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT IN MY AWS ENVIRONMENT **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep M. | Software Engineer, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 21, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** EASE OF USE ACM SIMPLIFIES THE PROCESS OF PROVISIONING MANAGING AND DEPLOYING SSL/TLS CERTIFICATES FOR YOUR AWS RESOURCES. EASE OF IMPLEMENTATION, INTEGRATION IS SEAMLESSLY INTEGRATED WITH OTHER AWS SERVICES, EASY-TO-SECURE RESOURCES, AWS CF, ELB, AND APIS. GLOBAL COVERAGE ACM SUPPORTS CERTIFICATES IN MULTIPLE REGIONS MAKING IT SUITABLE, FOR FREQUENCY OF USE FOR GEOGRAPHICALLY DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS. CUSTOMER SUPPORT **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** LIMITED TO AWS - ACM IS DESIGNED TO BE USED WITHIN THE AWS ECOSYSTEM. NO WILDCARD SUPPORT OR CERTIFICATES THAT REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATES FOR SUBDOMAINS. REGIONAL LIMITATIONS CREATED IN ONE AWS REGION MAY COMPLICATE MULTI-REGION DEPLOYMENTS. DEPENDENCY ON AWS USING ACM MAY LOCK YOU INTO AWS SERVICES MAKING IT LESS SUITABLE FOR A MULTI-CLOUD **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** SIMPLIFIED CERTIFICATE MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND DEPLOYING SSL/TLS, AUTOMATIC RENEWAL-REDUCING THE RISK OF MANUAL INTERVENTION, COST SAVINGS-PURCHASING CERTIFICATED FROM THIRD PARTY VENDORS, AWS LEAD SUBSTANTIAL COST SAVING PLANS, ENHANCED SECURITY-PROTECTING SENSITIVE DATA CONFIDENTIALITY AND INTEGRITY, INTEGRATION WITH AWS SERVICES-AWS ACF, ELB, AWS API GATEWAY, GLOBAL COVERAGEAWS ENABLING IN MULTIPLE REGIONS AND IT SUPPORTS BUSINESS TO DEPLOY SECURE APLICATIONS GLOBALLY, OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCYALLOWING IT TERMS TO FOCUS ON CRITICAL TASK AND PROJECT ### 3. A centralised tool for certificate management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gonzalo H. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 12, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The interface is quite friendly to use, it guides you during the whole process for creation, which is nice. It provides a comprehensive guide on what happens when you decide to go for different configuration options. It can detect the DNS changes super quickly, making iteration faster. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Maybe the least helpful thing is that it doesn't tell you that when creating a certificate that has more than one name, the DNS records can be the same, which is quite confusing. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Having all my certificates in a centralised location, together with my AWS infrastructure. It makes integration of the SSL certificates much faster and simpler. ### 4. Public AWS Certificate MAnagemer usage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** We all know Certificate Manager is used for the secure communtion between two parties like iot devices and backend services. Aws Certificate manager is easy to use easy to create the cerficates, Using the certificate we can implementate our backend code easyly. and also easy integration with the golang we have prettified aws packages **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing, it was very easy to use. In my daily work life **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am working on iot product, It is know as obd in the hardware device it fetches the details from the car and send to the cloud. This data communication will be happend in the ssl connection - MQTT and aws sqs. For having ssl communication we uses the aws certificate manager. ### 5. Makes the management of SSL Certs very easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 15, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Auto renewal of certs and application to the loadbalancers and endpoiints where they are already installed. Takes away a lot of manual process involved with renewal and updating of ssl certs across many services. Ease of use and validation of certs , chain and keys prior to installation. autorenewal is a big plus. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** nothing so far. it works as it should and i haven't encountered any negative issues so far. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Certificate Manager solves the problem of manually updating SSL Certs across multiple managed services and infrastructure. ### 6. Must have feature for anybody in deployment field. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 10, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is quite easy to use and understand , Even for beginners. Proper implementation documents are available along with videos for better understanding and implementation. It's actual feature is the automated system which can purchase , renew or upload new SSL/TLS certificate. This makes the frequent need to handle certificates easy. Its integration with aws services as well as other services provided by other cloud providers or on-prem systems is easy as well as. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** The documentation needds to carry more examples according to use cases as these services are new and sometimes its quite tricky to integrate everything according to the needs. I needed to run multiple tests for a week before deploymant because my use case was not explained properly. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It resolved the issue of purchasing and renewing certificates again and again. Also it made the management of multiple cerificates easier for me as an administrator there were multiple certificate issued fromm my side and it was time consuming to verify and manage each of them seperately. With ACM , it was possible to manage everything from a single dashboard with proper tagging. ### 7. process simplify **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 19, 2024 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** most easy to use and renew and add certificates to AWS and manage **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing as of now,implementing and exploring it yet **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** we dont have the need to have separate servers for CA and separate login for addition , renewal of certificates, in a single service / console, all these factors taken care of ### 8. Effortless Handling of SSL Certs - Do it in the Modern Way! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gab K. | Senior Lead Engineer, Insurance, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Easy to use, one time setup and automatically renew for you from the 2nd year onwards. You dont need to worry about managing your own private cert, saving you tones of times.Most importantly, if you dont need your own private CA, it's FREE! **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Only DNS/Email verification is available, you cant use http based/file based verification like what you do for LetsEncrypt **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** The need to periodically rotate SSL certs Alerting for expiring certs The ability to integrate SSL into other AWS services seamlessly ### 9. Best of ACM **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mallikarjun B. | Vmware Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 20, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The best part is it handles creating ,storingand renewing private and public ssl/tsl certificate and certificate can also be imported for integrated AWS services. It protects infinite number of subdomain. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** You cannot use these certificate outside AWS **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It removes time consuming manual process of renewing and purchasing ssl/tls certificate ### 10. Easy to acquire and provision TLS certificates **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter v. | CTO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 14, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is easy to acquire new certificates and provision them - especially for serverless resources like API Gateway. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Auto validation via DNS is a bit tricky to get set up, but it works well once you have Route 53 configured correctly. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating TLS certs for API Gateway ### 11. good product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek S. | recruiter, Staffing and Recruiting, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 06, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** AWS Certificate Manager help to make the process simple so its easy to us to obtaining, managing, and renew certificates. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is limited to AWS only. You cannot use ACM certificates for other cloud platforms or on-premise servers **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** By using AWS Certificate Manager we can easily renew all the certificates in one place which is best thing ### 12. Super easy to setup and configure. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Farhan A. | Founder & CEO, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 20, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It's a bit confusing at first. But then it's the best tool to create certificates for your projects when on aws. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** DNS verification sometimes takes too long. Also sometimes some certificates need manual updates. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating CDNs with S3 and Cloudfront, Deploying apps with that needed SSL. ### 13. Aws certified Manager Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash P. | IT security analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 07, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** ACM is time saving, No additional charge, helps in manage and deployp public and private SSL TLS certificate **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Right now, there is nothing to dislike but in future as technologies like Artificial intelligence growing changes should be done **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Simple structure, easy to understand, removes error prone steps while uploading certificates. ### 14. AWS ACM **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Showrya K. | Senior DevOps Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It's very easy to manage ssl and TLS certificates using ACM. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing. Its quite easy to manage all the certificates at one place. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its a ine stop solution for managing and renewing certificates. ### 15. Best certificate manager **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** aswath k. | System Administrator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2023 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** If you are using AWS service then it is very easy to integrate certificate with certificate manager **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Not able to use in other cloud services. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saves time to integrate on different AWS services. Timing reminder and renemwal on certificate expire ### 16. MOST SECURED CERTIFICATE **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mahammad K. | Cloud Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 03, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Glad to say it's free service offered by aws for Aws Cloud resources. Easy intigration and validation also very simple. We can also attach single certificate for so many domains as well **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** If we have export option also that will be more helpful for future reference. Nothing to dislike but most of the time we love to use aws acm only so happy for that. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's protecting our underlying resources on th top of Loadbalancers , Domains, most safe and secure data ,and redirection issues also got resolved with this acm. Easy and efficient ### 17. Simple and elegant solution for working with AWS Cloud **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 14, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Ease of use - very user-friendly interface to create and manage certificates needed to secure connections and integrations, especially to other AWS services. Effectively solves the issues around integrating within AWS, importing external keys and certificates, allowing us to implement SSL on AWS services. As an added bonus, public certificates are also free. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Lack of automatic domain verification. Limited to AWS managed services only. Cannot find a way to generate automatic notification of certificate expiry, which seems like a fairly obvious feature. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Definitely highly recommended, user friendly solution for certificate management & SSL for all of your AWS service needs. Anything external to AWS, look elsewhere. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrating with other AWS services and managing SSL certificates for our websites. Very straightforward process to renew certificates. Very user friendly and makes certificate renewal one less thing to worry about, increasing efficiency in the business. ### 18. Ease deploying SSL certificate on need basis **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer & Network Security | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** When I want to deploy certificate on internal and external servers or sites, it just clicks away where you can configure the digital signature easily and will not impact much and will be deployed easily cost effective also **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** For older versions of windows like XP, it does not support SSL, hence needs to configure fix IP which attracts extra and sometime may not be cost effective and also requires custom certificate configuration **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is helping me to secure the website by deploying the TLS so that man in the middle kind of attack can be mitigated and also support the latest version TLS and they are easy to implement ### 19. Senior DevOps Engineer **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Praveen K. | SDE-3, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2022 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The best feature is we don't need to spend our time configuring SSL with domain manually. you can pass cert-manager name with the AWS ELB or any other AWS service like S3, ECS and your site will be protected with SSL **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There is no option to import your AWS certificate and reuse it in any other place **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** If you are using complete AWS services, then you can consider purchasing certificate and domain from AWS only **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** To secure my application with https ### 20. Simple and effective way for manage certificate in AWS **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hung V. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 30, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** excellent certificate service provided by AWS, we just need to request the certificate for a Route53 domain from AWS and do validating our domain then it will be ready for use for free, We could use this certificate to enable SSL in our AWS Load balancer and AWS Cloud Front services. It supports auto-renew the certificate so reduce our effort on manage. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** We could not use this cert for our application running in EC2, the validating process is a little confusing **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** If your AWS system have ELB, Elastic Beanstalk, Elastic Beanstalk and API Gateway then AWS Certificate Manager is the best choice for HTTPS/TLS configuration, it is free and easy to setup, but AWS Certificate Manager does not support physical certificate so it could not use in EC2 **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We deploy our system in AWS with the applications are installed in EC2 Auto Scale Group and has Load Balancer with Route53, and we use CloudFront as CDN, we have requested certificates from AWS and apply to our services, it saves a lot of effort on buy, installs and manage the certificate ### 21. Easiest way of creating a SSL certificate **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Monish K. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 22, 2020 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** This Certificate can be used with any Rout53 DNS provider to host a secure HTTPS website, The setup and validation process are simple, AWS gives two type of validations, email validation and DNS validation in which we just have to add a Rout53 entry to get the certificate validated, to use it we can just add this received certificate in the ELB, over all the process of setting up and using is simple **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** the waiting time for the certificate is huge, if i have to make a immediate domain name change for my website then its not going to happen and If i am having a domain in AWS and i am requesting for a certificate for it, shouldn't it be immediate why should we go through the validation step , because the domain name provider is AWS it self **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have hosted lots of secure https websites for our business, we are a retail and online company , we save some time using the AWS services ### 22. Easy and Free **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 03, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is easy to create, verify and use certificates if you are working with AWS ELB or CloudFront **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Cannot use issues certificates in EC2 directly. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Use DNS based verification to avoid approval process again after an year. The certificate issues is valid for an year and rotated automatically if DNS based verification is used. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** SSL setup is easy to solve without worrying about renewal. ### 23. Painless certificate management solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 27, 2019 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Easy provisioning, management, and deployment of SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS Cloud services. Certificates auto-renew, providing confidence all services will continue to work without the management overhead associated with typical certificate expiry. Also it's free!!!! **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Not much to dislike, perhaps only that management across regions can become a bit tedious as a certificate is required for each. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Secure access to our public web applications ### 24. SSL Made Easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It is FREE! This is a massive perk. Also, the ease of creating a certificate is astonishing. These certs plug directly into AWS products such as AWS API Gateway and ELB's. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** It's a little annoying to have to create a certificate for every region if doing cross-region stuff but it's not bad enough to outweigh the goods. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** AWS Certs for our load balancers. ### 25. SSL certificates are digital certificates that authenticate a website's identity and enable an encrypted connection. They are essential for securing data transfer between a user's browser and a web server, ensuring privacy and data integrity. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** James C. | Sysops, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 29, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Simple and fast. Streamlined certification process. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing to be disliked, the provided solution is simple to use. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?**

Reduce the complexity of the procedure

### 26. Amazing service, it changed the way you secure your http applications. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Consumer Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 28, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** This is one of best services, it automates the certificate handling. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** nothing. everything is really cool with this service. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Buying, installing and rotaring certificates used to be a maintenance nightmare, expensive and unsecured. With certificate manager you don't have to deal with any of that. it is totally free and super secure. ### 27. Bye bye GoDaddy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The best part about ACM is that I don't have to pay for or renew certificates. Security should be this simple. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There's not much to dislike about ACM. It works, it's flexible, and it integrates with the AWS services I need it to. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Generation of dynamic SSL certificates for per-customer URLs. ### 28. Certificate Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 04, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The best is not only able to generate new certificates but you can import your existing certificates. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There is nothing much to dislike about the product, its a great way to generate and import certificates. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** NA **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** One place shop to have everything in AWS Cloud. ### 29. Love it **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Security and Investigations | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Auto-renewing forever - as long as you use domain verification **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Email verification goes to my IT dept to click, so I can't renew myself Also, can't use certs on EC2, e.g. nginx **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Use domain validation, not email validation **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Less risk of outage due to expired certs ### 30. Quick and simple certificates for most of Amazon provided services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gary H. | Angel Investor, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 27, 2017 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Zero "installation" of the certificates. Once a certificate is requested/created it can be installed onto any AWS services simply through a pick list as a configuration option. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** No apex or root included in a wildcard. Most other certificate providers do this by default. E.g.: If you order a certificate for *.example.com it would include example.com itself. In the case of AWS it needs to be explicitly requested as a seaport entity. There may be use cases where this makes sense but it would be nice to make that opt-out instead of opt-in. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Be careful to explicitly include your root or apex zone in a wildcard certificate request **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Mostly HTTPS for various sites. The AWS certificate manager covers off usage in static sites from an S3 bucket through to Elastic Load Balanced sites using EC containers. ### 31. ACM Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospitality | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Automating the notification and acknowlegement of certificate renewals. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Setting up notifications can be a bit cryptic **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ease of certificate tracking and management ### 32. Total Online Security with Zero cost **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suresh S. | USE SONY SPEAKER, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Total online transactions security with no charge or AMC **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Cannnot think of anything since it is the best **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We provide cloud service to the end-user and customer has the option to pay online and with this facility, we are completely secured with 100% customer's satisfaction ### 33. Works well, could be a bit simller **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Events Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 07, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Free SSL certificates that require only email validation **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** The SSL cert cannot be downloaded and used on your own server (even your own EC2 instance) which is very annoying. It's understandable why this is done for security reasons, but this forces you to use either CloudFront or ELB if you want to make use of free certificates, both of which come at an additional fee, even if you don't need caching or multiple servers. Also, I wish validation/renewal was easier for domains linked to Route53. (If I have access to redirect emails through another server, what is the point in sending out verification emails?) **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Note that you need to use ELB or CloudFront to make use of the certificates. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Costly SSL certificates when owning many domains. ### 34. AWS Certificate Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ryne L. | Project Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Easy to create or transfer new or existing certificates for clients **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Can be kind of challenging to work with some providers **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Deploying clients new or revised websites ### 35. Free Service and Best Results **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjeev C. | Manager- Infrastructure, Telecommunications, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** It provides ssh certificate with zero cost **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** There is nothing to dislike this product **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helped us to get the online transactions secured and help gain our customer trust ### 36. ssl layer for our public facing web servers **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** This service has made it really easy for us to provide ssl layer for our public facing web servers. Placing these servers behind a load balancer and placing the ssl cert for secure access is great. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Nothing to not like here. Easy inexpensive and integrated with the rest of their products. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Easy to setup **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** We're able to provide https access to our web servers. Chrome likes to complain when a site doesn't allow it to present on https. ### 37. Great Certificate Manager **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Luis E. | Consultor de Marketing Digital y Comercio Electrónico, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 16, 2018 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** The amazon certificates are free for aws services that require a certificate. Also it's easy to implement and to integrate into aws services. Fast certificate issuance and customization for additional names. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** That the certificates for external applications do cost more than with other certificates authorities. **Recommendations to others considering AWS Certificate Manager:** Great to integrate in few steps with Wordpress and Joomla. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** CDN implementation and integration with web plaforms like Wordpress, Joomla and custom developments. I have implemented it with AWS Cloudfront very easy and straightforward. ### 38. Fantastic Product That Saves Money **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2016 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** AWS Certificate Manager allows me to create SSL certificates for my amazon hosted websites easily and best of all, for free. **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Only thing to dislike is that the SSL certificate is only valid for applications that use Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon CloudFront. **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** My customers need to have the piece of mind that their information is secure and that they're using a secure application. AWS Certificate manager allows us to easily create the certificates and deploy them to our applications with a few clicks. The process is easy and has saved us both time and money. ### 39. Eliminates certificate hassle for AWS-hosted services **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Steve H. | Site Reliability Engineer, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2017 **What do you like best about AWS Certificate Manager?** Straightforward, automated provisioning, deployment, and renewal of certificates for CloudFront and Elastic Load Balancing deployments **What do you dislike about AWS Certificate Manager?** Region-related quirks (for CloudFront distributions, all certs must be hosted in us-east-1) **What problems is AWS Certificate Manager solving and how is that benefiting you?** Reduce costs of provisioning certificates, eliminate errors by automating deployment and renewal ## AWS Certificate Manager Discussions - [What is ACM validations AWS?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-acm-validations-aws) - 1 comment - [View AWS Certificate Manager pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-certificate-manager/reviews?filters%5Bnps_score%5D%5B%5D=5§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-13+17%3A43%3A19+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=8bf1f8ba-d20f-427f-8675-184d1796bbf3&secure%5Btoken%5D=a4d09f6ce838473b1a7ea747a5771c75041c93a2bda5a6a150a8a39e32a03ec2&format=llm_user) ## AWS Certificate Manager Features **Administration** - Notifications - Warranty - Server License - Free Reissues **Functionality** - Certificate Discovery - Expiration Monitoring - Automated Certificate Operations - Policy And Role-Based Access Controls - Workflow - Protocol Support - Reporting And Search - Audit And Enforcement - Key Storage **Functionality** - Multi-Domain Support - Browser Support - Site Seal - AI Features **Security** - Domain Validated SSL - Issuance Speed - Encryption Strength - Extended Validation SSL - Organization Validated SSL ## Top AWS Certificate Manager Alternatives - [DigiCert ONE](https://www.g2.com/products/digicert-one/reviews) - 4.3/5.0 (71 reviews) - [Azure Key Vault](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-key-vault/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (46 reviews) - [Letsencrypt](https://www.g2.com/products/letsencrypt/reviews) - 4.8/5.0 (21 reviews)