Automate Certbot generated SSL Certificate Renewal with, AWS Systems Manager, AWS EC2 and Terraform

Overview

The following solution can be implemented on AWS to schedule a renewal for SSL Certificates generated with Certbot and the Certbot certbot-dns-route53 plugin.

What is Certbot ?

As per the official Cerbot website,

Certbot is a free, open source software tool for automatically using Let’s Encrypt certificates on manually-administrated websites to enable HTTPS.

Certbot is made by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a 501(c)3 nonprofit based in San Francisco, CA, that defends digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

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