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Pointing Domain A record to EC2 and Serving with HTTPS – CPanel

SO I have a domain pointed into a cPanel. Now I wanted my emails to be hosted in cPanel but my website files should serve from AMAZON AWS EC2. So I changed the A record in the cPanel and it works fine. Now I have to make the website serve with HTTPS. Can anyone help me with that ?

I have created a certificate using Amazon certificate manager.

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    You cannot use a certificate created with ACM on EC2 directly.

    Instead, you need to put your instance behind a load balancer (either the ELB classic or the ALB) and then deploy the ACM cert to the load balancer.

    You will also need to change the DNS record from an A record point to the IP address to a CNAME that points at the load balancer name.

    Another option would be to use Let’s Encrypt on the instance to generate the cert.

    Your other option would be to purchase a commercial cert & deploy it to the instance.

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    AWS Certificate Manger can only be implement with Load Balancer only.
    It does not provide you option to download the certificate keys and map with any machine]

    TO map your domain with HTTPS you will need to create Elastic Load Balancer CLB/ALB (I would prefer you to create ALB load balancer).

    Map your CLB/ALB with ACM for port 443 and add your Instance with create ELB.

    FYI: For ALB you will have to create Target group.

    Pros: It is cheap and very secure as well, it does provide you TLS Security Policy version.

    Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/classic/elb-security-policy-table.html

    References to Create ACM and Load Balancer:

    https://hackernoon.com/getting-a-free-ssl-certificate-on-aws-a-how-to-guide-6ef29e576d22

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