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Imports a certificate into Amazon Web Services Certificate Manager (ACM) to use with services that are integrated with ACM. Note that integrated services allow only certificate types and keys they support to be associated with their resources. Further, their support differs depending on whether the certificate is imported into IAM or into ACM. For more information, see the documentation for each service. For more information about importing certificates into ACM, see Importing Certificates in the Amazon Web Services Certificate Manager User Guide .
Note
ACM does not provide managed renewal for certificates that you import.
Note the following guidelines when importing third party certificates:
Not Before
and Not After
certificate fields.Issuer
field must not be empty.CertificateArn
argument. Include this argument only when you want to replace a previously imported certificate.fileb://
. For example, you can specify a certificate saved in the C:\temp
folder as fileb://C:\temp\certificate_to_import.pem
. If you are making an HTTP or HTTPS Query request, include these arguments as BLOBs.This operation returns the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the imported certificate.
See also: AWS API Documentation
See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.
import-certificate
[--certificate-arn <value>]
--certificate <value>
--private-key <value>
[--certificate-chain <value>]
[--tags <value>]
[--cli-input-json <value>]
[--generate-cli-skeleton <value>]
--certificate-arn
(string)
The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an imported certificate to replace. To import a new certificate, omit this field.
--certificate
(blob)
The certificate to import.
--private-key
(blob)
The private key that matches the public key in the certificate.
--certificate-chain
(blob)
The PEM encoded certificate chain.
--tags
(list)
One or more resource tags to associate with the imported certificate.
Note: You cannot apply tags when reimporting a certificate.
(structure)
A key-value pair that identifies or specifies metadata about an ACM resource.
Key -> (string)
The key of the tag.Value -> (string)
The value of the tag.
Shorthand Syntax:
Key=string,Value=string ...
JSON Syntax:
[
{
"Key": "string",
"Value": "string"
}
...
]
--cli-input-json
(string)
Performs service operation based on the JSON string provided. The JSON string follows the format provided by --generate-cli-skeleton
. If other arguments are provided on the command line, the CLI values will override the JSON-provided values. It is not possible to pass arbitrary binary values using a JSON-provided value as the string will be taken literally.
--generate-cli-skeleton
(string)
Prints a JSON skeleton to standard output without sending an API request. If provided with no value or the value input
, prints a sample input JSON that can be used as an argument for --cli-input-json
. If provided with the value output
, it validates the command inputs and returns a sample output JSON for that command.
See 'aws help' for descriptions of global parameters.
Note
To use the following examples, you must have the AWS CLI installed and configured. See the Getting started guide in the AWS CLI User Guide for more information.
Unless otherwise stated, all examples have unix-like quotation rules. These examples will need to be adapted to your terminal's quoting rules. See Using quotation marks with strings in the AWS CLI User Guide .
To import a certificate into ACM.
The following import-certificate
command imports a certificate into ACM. Replace the file names with your own:
aws acm import-certificate --certificate file://Certificate.pem --certificate-chain file://CertificateChain.pem --private-key file://PrivateKey.pem