Is this ACM public certificates used with ACM-integrated service only? OR can we use this for externally hosted applications as well?
I need a TLS certificate (PEM-encoded) for your subdomain and the 2048-bit private key (PEM-encoded).
to configure it in OKTA Admin console. Ref: https://developer.okta.com/docs/guides/custom-url-domain/main/#update-your-dns-txt
My preference is to generate SSL/TLS public certificate from AWS ACM as its free? However, I am not sure as AWS guidelines highlight that "AWS Certificate Manager and used exclusively with ACM-integrated services, such as Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon API Gateway, are free.
You pay for the AWS resources you create to run your application. "
Could some one clarify this pls? Thanks.
#luk2302 You're right. ACM doesn't share private keys. ACM public certificates are exclusively for AM-integrated services like Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon API Gateway. thanks for highlighting this.
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How to call the secured API management linked APIs configured in azure portal when developing locally using SWA CLI? All I observed in the SWA configuration is meant for functions as APIs not the APIM.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/static-web-apps/apis-api-management
When adding API Management APIs to an azure static web app, an automatic proxy product is created on APIM securing access to the API for this app via /api prefix on the static web app domain. I did not see any mentions of how this works for local development to pass the user claims from SWA emulator to the API via that proxy?
I was trying to do this recently and I don't think it's possible. My solution was to add a proxy to my dev server (in my case vite) to proxy all requests to the /api route to the Api Management URL, setting the necessary subscription key header.
I am learning how to create an APIM instance using Powershell using the steps give here. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/api-management/api-management-howto-integrate-internal-vnet-appgateway
Here at one point they talk about creating a API Management virtual network object.
What exactly is API Management virtual network object ?
AFAIK,
Within the Network, to access backend services - Azure APIM Instance should be deployed in an Azure Virtual Network.
So, you would be creating the Virtual Network, subnets in that created VNet, NSGs, NSG rules for the Application Gateway, etc.
When you attach the above details (VNet, SubNet Data) in an object to the APIM Instance/Service, it can be known as APIM Virtual Network Object.
I have created a .NET Core API and deployed it as an App Service in Azure. On top of that, I have an instance of Azure API Management. Now I want the API to be only accessible through the APIM.
During the free testing phase, i restricted the access to the API to the IP of the APIM. As i do not expect my API to have high traffic and to save costs, i now switched to free and consumption tier.
As my APIM uses the consumption tier, there is no static IP that I could use to restrict the API access.
As my App Service uses a free plan, neither VNet Integration nor incoming client certificates are available.
Is there are a way to secure a free App Service API with a APIM in consumption tier with Azure except from implementing it myself?
You have a few options with Consumption SKU in mind:
Basic auth - make APIM send a well known secret and check for that secret in API App.
Client certificate authentication - make APIM use client cert to connect to API App and check for it there.
I've setup my ssl cert in AWS through EC2 using the Elastic IP Address and Elastic Load Balancing. It costs me about 20$ per month to run this.
Does anyone have cheaper suggestions?
Depends on what you are using your EC2 instance for... If for a web service, look at API Gateway in front of a Lambda function for a serverless architecture. If for a website and it is static, consider hosting in a S3 bucket.
Let'sencrypt would be the ideal solution for your case. https://letsencrypt.org/ offers free ssl certificates that you can generate and import into your ACM and attach them from ELB
OR
If you prefer it directly to your EC2 instance then you can install them in your apache (httpd) web server.
Refer: https://www.godaddy.com/help/apache-install-a-certificate-centos-5238
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a4wRsT6LaI
Use certificates from the AWS certificate manager and you won't pay anything. They are free. https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/pricing/
You can use AWS CloudFront as the gateway to your application which can use AWS Certificate Manager issued SSL certificates for free. There are no upfront commitments and you will pay only for the usage (More details refer CloudFront Pricing). You can connect your EC2 instance to CloudFront to receive traffic.
This will provide you a higher performance by caching the static content while reducing the load for your backend further reducing costs at scale.
I have Google Cloud project consisting of a compute engine instance which I want to configure as a push subscriber of Cloud Pub/Sub service. I have setup an apache webserver with a self-signed certificate on the instance and have also made a DNS entry (abc.mydomain.com) which points to the instance which has a static IP address. I am already a verified owner of the domain (mydomain.com) on webmasters.
Whenever I add the subscription from the Cloud console, it fails with the error: "The subscription could not be added" and does not show any other useful information.
Please help.
Self-signed certificates are not supported.
There are few options for you:
Pay for the certificate
Use App Engine as a proxy
Use pull subscriptions
Use App Engine Managed VM
The last one is basically a Compute Engine instance, but you will get free https connection via a subdomain of appspot.com.