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It is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the non-profit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG).

It removes the time-consuming manual process of purchasing, uploading, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates. With this service, you can quickly request a certificate, deploy it on AWS resources.

Discover, provision, rotate and monitor SSL/TLS certificates and keys from a single control plane. Prevent outages, enforce policy, and automate PKI operations at scale.

Automated compliance verification and attestation for AI regulations worldwide. Classify risk, run cross-framework assessments, generate audit-ready documentation, and issue tamper-proof attestation certificates — with built-in regulatory intelligence that automatically adapts as new laws emerge.