Amazon Private CA
AWS Private Certificate Authority (AWS Private CA) is a highly available, fully managed private CA service that helps you easily and securely manage the lifecycle of your private certificates. It allows you to create private CA hierarchies and issue X.509 certificates for your internal resources including TLS certificates for microservices, IoT devices, and user authentication.
APIs
AWS Private CA API
The AWS Private CA API provides programmatic access to create and manage private certificate authorities, issue X.509 certificates, manage certificate revocation lists, configur...
Capabilities
Amazon Private CA PKI Management
Workflow capability for managing private PKI infrastructure using Amazon Private CA. Combines certificate authority management, certificate issuance, revocation, and audit repor...
Run with NaftikoFeatures
Create root and subordinate CA hierarchies for complete control over your PKI infrastructure.
Issue end-entity and CA certificates signed by your private CAs for internal resources.
Revoke compromised or expired certificates with CRL and OCSP support.
Generate detailed audit reports of all certificate issuance activity stored in S3.
Issue short-lived certificates to reduce revocation overhead and improve security posture.
Use certificate templates to standardize certificate extensions and constraints.
Control access to CA operations using fine-grained IAM policies and resource-based policies.
Fully managed, highly available service with automatic failover across AWS Availability Zones.
Use Cases
Issue TLS certificates for microservices, APIs, and internal web applications.
Provision unique X.509 certificates to IoT devices for mutual TLS authentication.
Issue certificates for user authentication and workload identity in zero-trust architectures.
Sign software artifacts and container images with private CA-issued certificates.
Issue certificates for VPN clients and network devices for mutual authentication.
Integrations
Integrate Private CA with ACM to manage and deploy certificates on AWS services.
Use Private CA to provision certificates for IoT devices connecting to AWS IoT Core.
Integrate with cert-manager for automated certificate provisioning in Kubernetes clusters.
Issue certificates for service mesh and pod-to-pod TLS in EKS clusters.
Store and rotate private keys associated with issued certificates.