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What is AWS Private CA?

Use AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) to securely issue and manage private certificates for your connected resources in one place.

Benefits

Create versatile certificate and certificate authority (CA) configurations to identify and protect your internal resources, including servers, applications, users, devices, and containers.
Build on a solid security foundation to protect data, identify resources, and help meet your regulatory and compliance needs.
Avoid outages and improve uptime by automating CA and certificate management using API calls, AWS CLI commands, or AWS CloudFormation templates.

Use cases

Issue certificates to identify and protect your internal servers, containers, users, instances, and IoT devices using APIs and SDKs.

Encrypt data in transit to and from your Kubernetes clusters and for pod-to-pod communications.

Enable TLS for resources on AWS and for on-premises private networks outside AWS.

Authenticate and encrypt communications between microservices in a service mesh.