Cloud Computing: Amazon Launches Certificate Manager. Offers Free SSL & TLS Security Certificates

January 25, 2016 Off By David

Grazed from Trak.in.  Author: Arnand Karwa.

The cloud computing industry is getting more and more competitive day by day. It has become a race between the leading cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, and IBM SoftLayer.

 
Amazon Web Services in an effort to maintain the competitive edge of its services has now launches Amazon Certificate Manager (ACM). With this Certificate Manager, the web developers would now be able to obtain TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Socket Layer) security certificates for free…

 
Leading web hosting service providers charge more than Rs. 4,000/ year for such certificates. Internet surfers these days pay a lot of attention to a green padlock in the address bar. It has become a symbol of trust for us. So, if a website has TLS and SSL security then we are more likely to trust it than any other website. Hence, by offering such TLS and SSL certificates for free, Amazon Web Services is trying to attract more web developers to its cloud offering…

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