Apparently, a new Certificate Authority called Let's Encrypt went live in 2016. Their vision is to make the web more secure by offering free TLS/SSL certificates (so that more domains are secured) and making the certification and renewal processes automatic (so these processes aren't forgotten by site admins). Let's Encrypt is already being supported by like everyone in the tech industry, and sounds pretty damn good to me, so let's use it! Unfortunately, their certbot tool is not officially supported by AWS, so we probably shouldn't jump on it until it is.
In the meantime, if we get bored, here are some tutorials for getting it set up on EC2 instances:
Apparently, a new Certificate Authority called Let's Encrypt went live in 2016. Their vision is to make the web more secure by offering free TLS/SSL certificates (so that more domains are secured) and making the certification and renewal processes automatic (so these processes aren't forgotten by site admins). Let's Encrypt is already being supported by like everyone in the tech industry, and sounds pretty damn good to me, so let's use it! Unfortunately, their
certbottool is not officially supported by AWS, so we probably shouldn't jump on it until it is.In the meantime, if we get bored, here are some tutorials for getting it set up on EC2 instances: