Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Kenneth Lawler

Jonathan Kozolchyk

Marcel Andrew Levy

Brandonn Gorman

Peter Zachary Bowen

Todd Lawrence Cignetti

Param Sharma

Kyle Benjamin Schultheiss

Ronald Andrew Hoskinson

Sandeep Shantharaj

Preston Anthony Elder, Iii

Jose Maria Silveira Neto

Graeme David Baer

Michael S Slaughter

Trevoli Ponds-White

Georgy Sebastian

Derek Bronson

Israel Galvez

An interface of a certificate management system acts as a target for management of digital authentication certificates from a group of candidate certificate authorities. Entities make certificate signing requests on behalf of subjects. The requests are received at an interface that appears to the requesting entities as a sole source of the signed certificates. But a certificate management component that processes the requests received by the interface applies a selection technique to select a particular certificate authority from a group of candidate certificate authorities available to sign the certificates. The certificate management component forwards the request to the particular certificate authority, receives back the signed certificate, and responds to the certificate signing request with the signed certificate. Although the certificate signing requests were all made via a same interface, the signed certificates can have different chains of trust. Various criteria may be used for the selection.

Interface and manager for multiple certificate authorities

A computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by private certificate authorities. A private certificate authority hosted by the computing resource service provider is able to issue signed certificates to network entities within the customer enterprise. The certificate management service provides a network-accessible application programming interface to the private certificate authority that allows applications to create and deploy private certificates programmatically. The system provides the flexibility to create private certificates for applications that require custom certificate lifetimes or resource names.

Certificate authority

A computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by public and/or private certificate authorities. In an embodiment, customers may use the certificate management service to generate private certificate authority which can issue signed certificates to network entities within the customer enterprise. In an embodiment, the private certificate authority is hosted by the computing resource service provider, and the certificate management service automates the renewal and management of active certificates. In an embodiment, the certificate management service allows customer applications to create, renew, and revoke certificates issued by both private and public certificate authorities via an application programming interface.

Certificate manager

A computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by public and/or private certificate authorities. In an embodiment, when a new certificate is generated, a certificate template is used to apply various settings and policies for the new certificate. In various examples, templates may be used to establish default values, enforce required and optional values, place restrictions on one or more data fields, and enforce signature requirements. In some embodiments, the template establishes rules for rejecting certificate requests that don't conform to the template.

Certificate generation method

In an embodiment, a computing resource service provider provides a certificate management service that allows customers of the computing resource service provider to create, distribute, manage, and revoke digital certificates issued by private certificate authorities. In an embodiment, a private certificate authority hosted by the computing resource service provider is able to issue signed certificates to network entities within the customer enterprise. In an embodiment, the certificate management service provides a network-accessible application programming interface to the private certificate authority that allows applications to create and deploy private certificates programmatically. In an embodiment, the system provides the flexibility to create private certificates for applications that require custom certificate lifetimes or resource names.

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Kenneth Lawler