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HTTPS: Create a TLS Certificate

Discover how to migrate your AWS application endpoint from HTTP to HTTPS by manually creating and validating a TLS certificate using AWS Certificate Manager. This lesson guides you through the multi-phase deployment process to ensure secure, encrypted traffic while maintaining service availability.

We'll cover the following...

Objective

  • Migrate our endpoint from HTTP to HTTPS.

Steps

  • Manually create a TLS certificate.

As things stand, our application is responding to unencrypted HTTP traffic. In the real world, we want to protect any data as it traverses the network. To do that, we must encrypt our traffic and serve it over HTTPS.

We’ll also take this as an opportunity to practice ...