Get SSL Cert
ACM
To enable SSL on our site we need to get a certificate for the domain. Handily for domains registered through route53 we can use ACM to create the required cert.
- Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Route 53 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/acm/.
- Click Register Certificate
- Request a public cert

- Specify the domain names for the cert
- Add all subdomains required to the cert. For example domain.com, www.domain.com, *.domain.com.

- Validate you own the domain
- Choose how you wish to validate the domain. The easiest option is to use DNS validation.
- With this approach you need to add some DNS values to your route53 hosted zone.

- Add tags to the cert

- Review the cert details

- Validate the domain
- We chose earlier to validate the domain using the DNS method
- This is made super easy in the console as we are using route53.
- Expand each subdomain
- Click Create record in Route 53
- The records are added for you
Alternatively you can go into the hosted zone in Route53 and add the CNAME values yourself.

- Wait for AWS to validate domain and issue the cert
- This can take up to 24 hours but normally happens in a couple of minutes.
- Once completed the status wil be set to issued.
