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Thursday, August 13, 2026

AWS Certificate Manager Ditching Email Validation – Time to Switch to DNS

AWS Certificate Manager is killing email validation for public certificates by September 2027, so you'll need to migrate to DNS validation before the deadline. This move follows the CA/B Forum's industry push to ditch email-based domain validation, making DNS the standard way to prove you own your domain.

source: [aws/security-blog]