I am trying to set up https for my EC2 instance but am very confused about the AWS Cloud HSM because it says that I have to pay an hourly rate of about $1.45 per hour, which would be $974.00 per month to have an https endpoint?! The tutorial I am following is here:
I feel like I am missing something because I can’t imagine that to have an https certificate cost that much?? Do I have to use AWS Cloud HSM? I have successfully imported an existing https certificate into AWS but I cannot afford this apparent cloudHSM cost!
CodePudding user response：
You don't use CloudHSM for ssl certificates on regular websitess. Instead you should be use AWS ACM which provides free SSL certificates for use in AWS. However, ACM can't directly be used on a plain EC2 instance. You would have to use load balancer for it to work.
Thus, if you just want EC2 instance, and nothing else, you can use letsencrypt to get free SSL cerficates for your domain which you can manually setup on your ec2 instance.