AWS Certificate Manager

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Provision, renew, and monitor SSL/TLS certificates automatically.

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AWS Certificate Manager is Amazon's managed PKI service for provisioning, deploying, and renewing public and private SSL/TLS certificates across your AWS infrastructure — at no extra cost for ACM-issued certs. Connect it to Actionist and your agent can request certificates for new subdomains the moment they are provisioned, monitor expiry windows across your entire fleet, trigger renewals before browsers start complaining, and route incidents when validation stalls — all without a human opening the AWS console.

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Average time saved

11 hours

per person · per month

≈ 1 workdays back

Eliminates manual work. Agents eliminate manual console checks for certificate expiry, validation follow-up emails, and the back-and-forth of coordinating cert replacements across load balancers and CDN distributions.

Schedule

What your AWS Certificate Manager agent runs on autopilot

A week of scheduled jobs your Actionist agent will execute on your behalf.

28Scheduled jobs

7Agents at work

24/7Always on

Agents

Wed–Fri

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Multi-app workflows

AWS Certificate Manager × every other app you use

End-to-end automations that span multiple apps — each one a real business outcome.

6Workflows

9Apps spanned

~26 hrsSaved / week

6Personas served

For customer success

Featured4 apps

Certificate expiry alert → auto-renewal in 60 seconds

When a customer-facing certificate enters the 45-day expiry window and ACM has not begun managed renewal, your agent reads the full certificate details, triggers a renewal request, attaches a confirmation to the customer account record in Slack, and schedules a follow-up calendar check — all before the on-call engineer has finished reading the first alert. Imported certificates that cannot auto-renew get a human-assigned task instead, pre-filled with the domain, expiry date, and issuing CA.

~12 hrs

Time saved for your team — every week, on autopilot

The flow

Trigger·When an ACM certificate expiry event fires for a customer-environment domain

Trigger

Step 1

Gmail

Receive expiry alert email from AWS Health

read

Step 2

AWS Certificate Manager

Get Certificate — read expiry date and InUseBy resources

write

Step 3

AWS Certificate Manager

Renew Certificate — trigger managed renewal

write

Step 4

Slack

Post renewal confirmation to #customer-infra channel

write

Step 5

Google Calendar

Schedule 7-day follow-up check to confirm ISSUED status

Result

Renew Certificate — trigger managed renewalPost renewal confirmation to #customer-infra channelSchedule 7-day follow-up check to confirm ISSUED status

The win

Saved per run

~2 hrs

Runs / week

~8×

Zero customer-facing SSL outages from missed renewals

Driven byCustomer Support Agent

ROI

Savings

What your team gets back — two angles: what you stop doing manually, and what that's worth.

Without Actionist

What you do manually today

With Actionist

What your agent runs for you

Sales
19 min / week
Manual cert status checks
Sales engineers manually verify SSL status on customer-facing demo environments before every prospect call — a 15-minute console dig that often happens at the last minute.
Sales Agent
0 min
Agent flags expiring demo certs
Agent scans demo-environment certificates Monday morning, posts any expiring within 14 days to #sales-ops, and queues a renewal — reps walk into calls with green padlocks, every time.
Marketing
14 min / week
Landing page SSL fire drills
Marketing campaign landing pages occasionally surface browser security warnings when certificates expire unnoticed — teams scramble to file IT tickets and lose conversion traffic mid-campaign.
Marketing Agent
0 min
Agent renews campaign certs proactively
Agent monitors all campaign subdomain certificates, triggers renewal at 30 days remaining, and posts confirmation to the campaign Slack channel — zero browser warnings, zero lost conversions.
Customer Support
19 min / week
SSL error ticket triage
Support agents receive 'Your connection is not private' tickets from customers and spend 20 minutes triaging whether the issue is a certificate expiry, misconfiguration, or DNS problem.
Customer Support Agent
0 min
Agent pre-diagnoses cert failures
When a cert-related ticket arrives, the agent reads ACM metadata, checks expiry and InUseBy resources, and prepends a root-cause summary to the ticket before a human even opens it.
Human Resources
8 min / week
Benefits portal cert renewal reminder
HR chases IT every year to renew the SSL certificate on the employee benefits portal before open-enrollment season — the task falls through the cracks when IT is understaffed.
Human Resources Agent
0 min
Agent schedules portal cert renewal
Agent monitors the benefits portal certificate and triggers renewal 45 days before expiry, posting confirmation to the HR ops channel so open-enrollment never launches on an expired cert.
Finance
14 min / week
Payment gateway cert audit
Finance manually audits SSL certificates on payment gateways and invoicing portals quarterly to satisfy PCI-DSS requirements — pulling ARNs from the console one by one into a spreadsheet.
Finance Agent
0 min
Agent generates cert compliance report
Each quarter the agent calls Get Many, filters to payment-tagged certificates, and writes a PCI-ready report to Google Sheets with expiry dates, key sizes, and CT logging status — in under a minute.
Operations
30 min / week
Certificate fleet expiry sweep
Ops engineers hand-check ACM certificates across multiple regions each week, copying expiry dates into a spreadsheet — an error-prone 30-minute chore that gets skipped whenever incidents dominate the day.
Operations Agent
0 min
Agent runs daily multi-region expiry scan
Agent runs Get Many across every region each morning, writes a ranked expiry report to the ops dashboard, and fires Slack alerts for any certificate inside the 30-day danger window — no engineer needs to open a console.
Legal
6 min / week
Contract portal cert expiry risk
Legal's contract signing portal uses an imported certificate managed by a third party; its expiry is tracked in a calendar reminder that gets ignored during busy deal seasons.
Legal Agent
0 min
Agent monitors and escalates imported cert
Agent tracks the imported certificate's expiry weekly, escalates to the legal ops lead at 60 days remaining, and opens a vendor renewal ticket at 30 days — the deadline never sneaks up again.

+ 100s of other AWS Certificate Manager automations

Average monthly

11 hrs / person / month

Average monthly

11 hrs / person / month

Calculator

Calculate what your team saves

Team size

10 people

Hourly rate

$20 / hr

Hours saved / week

Hours saved / year

1,400

Annual ROI

$28,000

Based on AWS Certificate Manager's typical team usage — the visible tasks plus a few other automations the agent runs: ~2.8 hrs / person / week of admin work automated.

Connect

How to plug AWS Certificate Manager into Actionist

Pick the connection method that suits your environment.

The fastest path to ACM — install the AWS MCP server once and your agent reaches Certificate Manager through a permissioned IAM role. No long-lived access keys to rotate; permissions are scoped to exactly what ACM needs.

Open the Apps tab

Find AWS Certificate Manager in the Apps library and click Connect. MCP is selected by default.

Authorise via AWS IAM

Grant the MCP server an IAM role with the managed policy AWSCertificateManagerReadOnly (for read-only) or a custom policy granting acm:* on your target region. Paste the role ARN when prompted — Actionist assumes the role via STS.

Test the connection

Actionist runs a read-only call to verify the handshake. You're ready.

Actions

15 actions your agent can call

Read and write operations available to your Actionist agent.

Triggers

7 events your agent can react to

Events your agent watches for, and the actions it kicks off in response.

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FAQs

Questions about AWS Certificate Manager + Actionist

How do I connect AWS Certificate Manager to Actionist?

Open the Apps tab, find AWS Certificate Manager, and click Connect. Choose MCP (recommended) to authenticate via an IAM role with the acm:* permission set — Actionist assumes the role through STS so no long-lived keys are stored. If you prefer credentials, switch to API Token and paste your IAM access key ID, secret, and target region.

What IAM permissions does the agent need to manage certificates?

For read-only monitoring use the AWS managed policy AWSCertificateManagerReadOnly (acm:Describe*, acm:Get*, acm:List*). To allow the agent to request, renew, delete, or tag certificates, add acm:RequestCertificate, acm:DeleteCertificate, acm:RenewCertificate, acm:AddTagsToCertificate, acm:RemoveTagsFromCertificate, and acm:UpdateCertificateOptions. Scope the policy to the specific regions and accounts you want managed — least privilege keeps your PKI surface small.

Can the agent automatically renew certificates before they expire?

Yes, and it works in two layers. ACM auto-renews Amazon-issued certificates when they are in use — the agent monitors for any cert that did not renew automatically (check RenewalEligibility via Describe Certificate) and calls Renew Certificate as a backup. For imported certificates, ACM cannot auto-renew, so the agent tracks the expiry date, alerts at 45 days remaining, and opens a renewal task for your PKI team with the exact deadline in the title.

Which certificate types and validation methods does the agent support?

The agent works with all ACM certificate types: Amazon-issued public certificates (DNS or email validation), imported third-party certificates, and private certificates from ACM Private CA. For DNS validation, the agent can read the required CNAME record values from ACM and check or write them to Route 53. For email validation, it can resend the validation email if the original is missed. Private CA issuance requires the IssuePrivateCertificate API, which the agent handles via the AWS SDK.

How does the agent avoid accidentally deleting a certificate still in use?

Before any deletion, the agent calls Describe Certificate and checks the InUseBy array. If any load balancers, CloudFront distributions, or API Gateway stages are listed, the agent blocks deletion and posts the associated resource ARNs as the reason. Add a SafeToDelete=true tag requirement to the pre-deletion check for a second layer of protection — the agent verifies the tag is present before proceeding.

Can the agent monitor certificates across multiple AWS accounts and regions?

Yes. Configure one connection per AWS account or use an IAM role with cross-account trust so Actionist can assume it via STS. The agent can then call Get Many across each region — ACM is regional, so us-east-1, eu-west-1, and ap-southeast-1 each require a separate List call. Combine the results in a workflow to produce a unified fleet view.

What happens when a certificate validation fails mid-workflow?

When the Certificate Validation Failed trigger fires, the agent reads the failure details from ACM — specifically the DomainValidationOptions array — to determine whether the missing DNS record, bounced email, or wrong validation domain is the culprit. It then routes to the appropriate fix: writing the missing CNAME to Route 53, resending the validation email, or opening a human-review task if the cause cannot be resolved programmatically.

Does connecting Actionist to ACM affect my AWS costs?

ACM public certificates are free; you pay only for Private CA usage (starting at $400/month per CA plus $0.75 per certificate issued). Actionist's API calls to ACM are standard AWS API requests — there is no per-call charge for ACM describe and list operations, though calls do count toward your AWS CloudTrail event volume. For cost allocation, tag each certificate with a CostCenter label so ACM-related resource costs (attached load balancers, CloudFront distributions) flow to the right budget line.