Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

RevokeCertificate

Revokes a certificate that was issued inside AWS Private CA. If you enable a certificate revocation list (CRL) when you create or update your private CA, information about the revoked certificates will be included in the CRL. AWS Private CA writes the CRL to an S3 bucket that you specify. A CRL is typically updated approximately 30 minutes after a certificate is revoked. If for any reason the CRL update fails, AWS Private CA attempts makes further attempts every 15 minutes. With Amazon CloudWatch, you can create alarms for the metrics CRLGenerated and MisconfiguredCRLBucket. For more information, see Supported CloudWatch Metrics.

Note

Both AWS Private CA and the IAM principal must have permission to write to the S3 bucket that you specify. If the IAM principal making the call does not have permission to write to the bucket, then an exception is thrown. For more information, see Access policies for CRLs in Amazon S3.

AWS Private CA also writes revocation information to the audit report. For more information, see CreateCertificateAuthorityAuditReport.

Note

You cannot revoke a root CA self-signed certificate.

Request Syntax


{
   "CertificateAuthorityArn": "string",
   "CertificateSerial": "string",
   "RevocationReason": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

CertificateAuthorityArn

Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the private CA that issued the certificate to be revoked. This must be of the form:

arn:aws:acm-pca:region:account:certificate-authority/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 5. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:[\w+=/,.@-]+:acm-pca:[\w+=/,.@-]*:[0-9]*:[\w+=,.@-]+(/[\w+=,.@-]+)*

Required: Yes

CertificateSerial

Serial number of the certificate to be revoked. This must be in hexadecimal format. You can retrieve the serial number by calling GetCertificate with the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the certificate you want and the ARN of your private CA. The GetCertificate action retrieves the certificate in the PEM format. You can use the following OpenSSL command to list the certificate in text format and copy the hexadecimal serial number.

openssl x509 -in file_path -text -noout

You can also copy the serial number from the console or use the DescribeCertificate action in the AWS Certificate Manager API Reference.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 128.

Required: Yes

RevocationReason

Specifies why you revoked the certificate.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

ConcurrentModificationException

A previous update to your private CA is still ongoing.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidArnException

The requested Amazon Resource Name (ARN) does not refer to an existing resource.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRequestException

The request action cannot be performed or is prohibited.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidStateException

The state of the private CA does not allow this action to occur.

HTTP Status Code: 400

LimitExceededException

An AWS Private CA quota has been exceeded. See the exception message returned to determine the quota that was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 400

RequestAlreadyProcessedException

Your request has already been completed.

HTTP Status Code: 400

RequestFailedException

The request has failed for an unspecified reason.

HTTP Status Code: 400

RequestInProgressException

Your request is already in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

A resource such as a private CA, S3 bucket, certificate, audit report, or policy cannot be found.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

Example

This example illustrates one usage of RevokeCertificate.

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: acm-pca.amazonaws.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 238
X-Amz-Target: ACMPrivateCA.RevokeCertificate
X-Amz-Date: 20180226T200035Z
User-Agent: aws-cli/1.14.28 Python/2.7.9 Windows/8 botocore/1.8.32
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=AWS_Access_Key_ID/20180226/AWS_Region/acm-pca/aws4_request, 
SignedHeaders=content-type;host;x-amz-date;x-amz-target, 
Signature=ab19c4301eb2e8e9f188f3d478cb1d5a28bfb41de3d54b5006c0738d411cfd86

{
  "CertificateSerial": "e8:cb:d2:be:db:12:23:29:f9:77:06:bc:fe:c9:90:f8",
  "RevocationReason": "KEY_COMPROMISE",
  "CertificateAuthorityArn": "arn:aws:acm-pca:region:account:certificate-authority/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"
}

Example

This example illustrates one usage of RevokeCertificate.

Sample Response


This function does not return a value.