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Certificate

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Certificate - AWS IoT

Information about a certificate.

Contents

certificateArn

The ARN of the certificate.

Type: String

Required: No

certificateId

The ID of the certificate. (The last part of the certificate ARN contains the certificate ID.)

Type: String

Length Constraints: Fixed length of 64.

Pattern: (0x)?[a-fA-F0-9]+

Required: No

certificateMode

The mode of the certificate.

DEFAULT: A certificate in DEFAULT mode is either generated by AWS IoT Core or registered with an issuer certificate authority (CA) in DEFAULT mode. Devices with certificates in DEFAULT mode aren't required to send the Server Name Indication (SNI) extension when connecting to AWS IoT Core. However, to use features such as custom domains and VPC endpoints, we recommend that you use the SNI extension when connecting to AWS IoT Core.

SNI_ONLY: A certificate in SNI_ONLY mode is registered without an issuer CA. Devices with certificates in SNI_ONLY mode must send the SNI extension when connecting to AWS IoT Core.

Type: String

Valid Values: DEFAULT | SNI_ONLY

Required: No

creationDate

The date and time the certificate was created.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No

status

The status of the certificate.

The status value REGISTER_INACTIVE is deprecated and should not be used.

Type: String

Valid Values: ACTIVE | INACTIVE | REVOKED | PENDING_TRANSFER | REGISTER_INACTIVE | PENDING_ACTIVATION

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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