# Configuring SSL certificate authentication
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For information about SSL certificate authentication configuration values and setting up SSL certificate authentication for your brokers, see [SSL certificate authentication](ssl-for-amq-for-rabbitmq.md) and [Using SSL certificate authentication](rabbitmq-ssl-tutorial.md).

**Note**  
The SSL certificate authentication plugin is only available for Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ version 4 and above.