CA administration

This page was generated from content adapted from the AWS Developer Guide

Creating a private CA

• Note Your account is charged a monthly price for each private CA starting from the time that you create it. For the latest AWS Private CA pricing information, see AWS Private Certificate Authority Pricing. You can also use the AWS pricing calculator to estimate costs.

Installing CA certificate

• Note Procedures for creating or obtaining an external trust services provider are outside the scope of this guide.

Listing private CAs

• Note You can customize the columns that you want to display, as well as other settings, by choosing the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the console.

Adding tags

• Note To attach tags to a private CA during the creation procedure, a CA administrator must first associate an inline IAM policy with the CreateCertificateAuthority action and explicitly allow tagging. For more information, see Attaching tags to a CA at the time of creation.

Updating a CA

• Note For all status values except DELETED and FAILED, you are billed for the CA.

Deleting a CA

• Important A private CA can be deleted if it is in the PENDING_CERTIFICATE, CREATING, EXPIRED, DISABLED, or FAILED state. In order to delete a CA in the ACTIVE state, you must first disable it, or else the delete request results in an exception. If you are deleting a private CA in the PENDING_CERTIFICATE or DISABLED state, you can set the length of its restoration period from 7-30 days, with 30 being the default. During this period, status is set to DELETED and the CA is restorable. A private CA that is deleted while in the CREATING or FAILED state has no assigned restoration period and cannot be restored. For more information, see Restoring a private CA. You are not charged for a private CA after it has been deleted. However, if a deleted CA is restored, you are charged for the time between deletion and restoration. For more information, see Pricing.

Restoring a CA

• Note You are not charged for a private CA after it has been deleted. However, if a deleted CA is restored, you are charged for the time between deletion and restoration. For more information, see Pricing.