[SOLVED] Pointing Domain A record to EC2 and Serving with HTTPS

Issue

SO I have a domain pointed into a cPanel. Now I wanted my emails to be hosted in cPanel but my website files should serve from AMAZON AWS EC2. So I changed the A record in the cPanel and it works fine. Now I have to make the website serve with HTTPS. Can anyone help me with that ?

I have created a certificate using Amazon certificate manager.

Solution

You cannot use a certificate created with ACM on EC2 directly.

Instead, you need to put your instance behind a load balancer (either the ELB classic or the ALB) and then deploy the ACM cert to the load balancer.

You will also need to change the DNS record from an A record point to the IP address to a CNAME that points at the load balancer name.

Another option would be to use Let's Encrypt on the instance to generate the cert.

Your other option would be to purchase a commercial cert & deploy it to the instance.

Answered By - chris