Amazon Web Services · Product lifecycle
AWS service closures, maintenance transitions, and API retirements.
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Developer Support, Business Support, and Enterprise On-Ramp will be discontinued.
Effective date
Jan 1, 2027
Recommended replacement
Business Support+ or AWS Enterprise Support
<p>AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) now enables you to change the domain validation method on your existing ACM issued public TLS certificates from e-mail to DNS, without reissuing the certificate or changing its existing Amazon Resource Name (ARN). Due to the <a href="https://cabforum.org/">Certification Authority/Browser (CA/B) Forum's</a> mandated deprecation of email-based domain validation for publicly trusted certificates, effective March 15, 2028, ACM will phase out its support for email validation throughout 2027. ACM will no longer issue email-validated certificates starting March 31 2027, and stop renewing email-validated certificates on September 30 2027. More details on ACM's deprecation of email validation can be found on the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-certificate-manager-will-discontinue-email-validation-to-prove-domain-validation-for-certificates">AWS Security Blog</a>. By switching to DNS validation now, you can transition ahead of that deadline and enable fully automated renewals through DNS validated certificates.</p> <p>Your certificate ARN remains unchanged after switching from e-mail to DNS validation, so existing ARN references i
Effective date
Mar 15, 2028
Recommended replacement
Vendor guidance pending
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