# Certificate
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An object representing the `certificate-authority-data` for your cluster.

## Contents
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 ** active **   <a name="AmazonEKS-Type-Certificate-active"></a>
An object identifying the certificate authority that is currently signing certificates for the cluster.  
Type: [ActiveCertificateAuthority](API_ActiveCertificateAuthority.md) object  
Required: No

 ** data **   <a name="AmazonEKS-Type-Certificate-data"></a>
The Base64-encoded certificate data required to communicate with your cluster. Add this to the `certificate-authority-data` section of the `kubeconfig` file for your cluster.  
Type: String  
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/eks-2017-11-01/Certificate) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/eks-2017-11-01/Certificate) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/eks-2017-11-01/Certificate) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for Amazon EKS. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query eks` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).