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How should an organization design its certificate management strategy across multiple AWS accounts and regions?

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Organizations operating across multiple AWS accounts and regions typically centralize certificate management using tools like AWS Organizations combined with automation, such as infrastructure as code templates that request and validate certificates consistently in each required region, while also monitoring certificate expiration and status across all accounts using AWS Config rules or CloudTrail based alerting to catch any certificate that might not be renewing automatically as expected.
aws config put-config-rule --config-rule file://acm-certificate-expiration-rule.json
Real-world example A multinational company uses an AWS Config rule across all of its AWS accounts to automatically flag any ACM certificate approaching expiration without successful automatic renewal, preventing an unexpected outage caused by an expired certificate in any region.

Common follow-ups: How can AWS Config help monitor certificate compliance across an entire organization?;What role does infrastructure as code play in maintaining a consistent certificate strategy?