You must install an X.509 certificate on your load balancer in order to use HTTPS or SSL termination. The X.509 certificate is issued by a central Certificate Authority (CA) and contains identifying information, including a digital signature. X.509 certificates have a validity period. Once an X.509 certificate expires, you must create and install a new certificate.
Once you’ve created a certificate, you must upload it to your cloud using the command.
You must create the certificate and get it signed by a certificate authority (CA) before you can upload the certificate using the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service. For instructions, go to .
Enter the euare-servercertupload
command, specifying the name of your certificate, the contents of the PEM-encoded public- and private-keys:
euare-servercertupload -s cert-name --certificate-file ssl_server_cert.crt --private-key-file ssl_server_cert.pem
You’ve now created an elastic load balancer.
You can verify that an uploaded certificate is stored in IAM. Each certificate object has a unique Amazon Resource Name (ARN) and ID.To verify an uploaded certificate: Use the euare-servercertlistbypath
command to verify the certificate is stored in IAM:
euare-servercertgetattributes -s elb-ssl-cert
The command will return the ARN, followed by the GUID. For example:
arn:aws:iam::495375389014:server-certificate/elb-ssl-cert
ASCWDKTJBXPSZTHWFERVP