SSL Certificates and SSL Offloading for AWS High Availability

Securing web applications with encryption is essential, but managing cryptographic handshakes can drain server resources and complicate deployment. This text-based course guides you through the fundamentals of transport layer security and teaches you how to offload these tasks to cloud infrastructure. You will learn to implement secure, high-performing architectures on AWS by moving decryption tasks from your backend servers to AWS Elastic Load Balancers, improving application response times and simplifying certificate renewals. What you'll learn: - Understand the core principles of SSL/TLS certificates and asymmetric encryption. - Configure AWS Certificate Manager to provision and automatically renew public certificates. - Set up Elastic Load Balancing to handle SSL offloading and decryption at the edge. - Implement modern TLS 1.3 security policies to protect user data. - Analyze server performance improvements achieved through decryption offloading. - Troubleshoot common certificate validation and trust-chain issues. Starting with essential cryptographic terminology and certificate fundamentals, this text-only course guides you step-by-step through configuring secure load balancers and managing certificates in a cloud environment. This course is designed for beginning cloud administrators, system operators, and web developers looking to secure their applications without complex server configuration. No prior cryptography or advanced AWS experience is required. Start reading today to build secure, highly available, and performant web architectures.