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AWS acm documentation change

Service: acm · 2026-07-01 · Documentation low

File: acm/latest/userguide/automation-outside-integrated.md

Summary

Added recommendation for ACME certificate automation and link to documentation

Security assessment

Promotes automated certificate renewal using ACME protocol, which improves security hygiene by ensuring timely renewals. No specific vulnerability is addressed.

Diff

diff --git a/acm/latest/userguide/automation-outside-integrated.md b/acm/latest/userguide/automation-outside-integrated.md
index 01002e180..14c266e68 100644
--- a//acm/latest/userguide/automation-outside-integrated.md
+++ b//acm/latest/userguide/automation-outside-integrated.md
@@ -10,0 +11,4 @@ You can export an ACM issued certificate for use on any workload. Once exported,
+###### Tip
+
+If you want to automate certificate issuance and renewal directly on your customer-managed infrastructure, we recommend ACME certificate automation for use with industry-standard, open source ACME clients (such as Certbot or cert-manager). See [ACME certificate automation](./acm-acme.html). Alternatively, if you cannot use ACME, you can automate exportable certificates issued from ACM through [AWS Workload Credentials Provider](./acm-certificate-automation.html).
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