Certificate Authority Service
Simplify the deployment and management of private CAs without managing infrastructure.
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Overview
What's new
Simpler deployment and management
Simplify the deployment, management, and security of your enterprise PKI with a cloud service that helps to automate time-consuming, risky, and error-prone infrastructure tasks, freeing you to focus on higher-value projects.
Tailored for you
Customize Certificate Authority Service to your needs by configuring custom CAs and certificates, enforcing granular access controls, automating common tasks with APIs, and integrating with your existing systems.
Enterprise-ready
Have peace of mind knowing that your CA service is highly available, scalable, backed by an SLA, auditable, and ready to help you achieve compliance with advanced hardware and software security controls.
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Features
Deploy in minutes
Create a private CA in minutes versus the days and weeks that it takes to deploy and operate your own CA. Leverage descriptive RESTful APIs to acquire and manage certificates without being a PKI expert.
Focus on higher-value tasks
Offload time-consuming tasks like hardware provisioning, infrastructure security, software deployment, high-availability configuration, disaster recovery, backups, and more to the cloud.
Pay-as-you-go or subscribe
Help lower your total cost of ownership and simplify licensing with pay-as-you-go pricing and zero capital expenditures. Pay only for what you use. Also, for high volume certificates, consider subscription for even less expensive alternatives.
Customize to your needs
Scale from simple to advanced use cases by configuring the root CA (e.g. existing on-premises or cloud), custom key sizes and algorithms, location (region) of the CA, bring your own cloud KMS key, and more. Manage, automate, and integrate private CAs and certificates in the way that’s most convenient for you: via APIs, gcloud command line, or cloud console.
Support compliance with various regulations
Have confidence that your CAs are approved as part of ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, SOC1, SOC2, SOC3, BSI C5, and PCI DSS.
Enforce granular access controls
Define granular, context-aware access controls and virtual security perimeters for CA Service with Cloud IAM and VPC Service Controls. Leverage certificate templates and per user-group policies to achieve even more granular control over certificate issuance.
Audit user activity
Obtain tamper-proof logs and gain visibility into who did what, when, and where with Cloud Audit Logs.
Scale with confidence
Scale with confidence knowing that the service provides high query throughput, can issue millions of certificates, and comes with an enterprise-grade SLA. Scale even higher by grouping a few CAs under a CA pool and let Google load balance certificate requests across them
Our customers
Click below to learn how our customers are using Certificate Authority Service in their environments.
Partners
Migrate your on-premises PKI to cloud leveraging our partner solutions that integrate with Certificate Authority Service.
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Pricing
There are two pricing options available: pay-as-you-go and subscription. If you plan to deploy more than 1 million certificates per year, consider our subscription model for more attractive pricing.
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Simplify the deployment and management of private CAs without managing infrastructure.