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Automate certificates with ACME support in AWS Certificate Manager

AWS adds ACME protocol support to Certificate Manager ahead of CA/Browser Forum's phased reduction to 47-day certificate validity — automation is now a necessity, not an option.

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Customers tell us that managing TLS certificates at scale is one of their biggest operational concerns. The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) has mandated a phased reduction in maximum certificate validity for public certificates. By March 2027, the maximum validity drops to 100 days. By March 2029, it lasts for 47 days. For an […]

Editorial Analysis

Why it matters

With public certificate lifetimes dropping to 47 days by 2029, any enterprise still managing TLS certificates manually faces mounting outage and compliance risk.

What to do

Adopt ACME-based certificate automation now and stress-test renewal pipelines against the upcoming shortened validity windows.

Board brief

Industry rules will shrink TLS certificate lifetimes to 47 days by 2029 — enterprises without automated certificate management face operational disruption risk.

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