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Why You Need Automated Certificate Management for AWS Private CA
Digital certificates are essential for secure communications in modern businesses. They verify system identities and encrypt data. But managing certificates manually becomes risky and complex as organizations grow especially when it comes to tracking expirations and maintaining compliance records. I have been there long ago in a situation where a missed expired certificate caused a long outage. Read detailed article here
The Problem: Certificate Management Headaches
We’ve all heard the stories: A critical system crashes at the worst possible time because a certificate expired. Nobody saw it coming because the expiration date was buried in a spreadsheet or, worse, not tracked at all.
These certificate failures lead to:
- Unexpected service outages
- Security vulnerabilities
- Compliance violations
- Wasted engineering time on emergency fixes
AWS Private CA: A Solution That Needs Automation
AWS Private Certificate Authority (Private CA) gives you the tools to create and manage certificates, but the real value comes from automating two critical processes:
- Audit reporting — Tracking which certificates exist, who owns them, and their status
- Expiration alerts — Getting notified before certificates…
