Certificate Authority Service
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Overview
Certificate Authority Service is a highly available, scalable Google Cloud service that enables you to simplify, automate, and customize the deployment, management, and security of private certificate authorities (CA).
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 (at GA)
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.
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
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 (when the service becomes generally available [GA]).
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, and more.
Manage it your way
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.
Enforce granular access controls
Define granular, context-aware access controls and virtual security perimeters for CA Service with Cloud IAM and VPC Service Controls (at GA).
Protect your keys in an HSM
Store your CA keys using Cloud HSM, which is FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated and available in regions across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
Audit user activity
Obtain tamper-proof logs and gain visibility into who did what, when, and where with Cloud Audit Logs.
Scale with confidence (at GA)
Scale with confidence knowing that the service provides high query throughput, can issue millions of certificates, and comes with an enterprise-grade SLA (at GA).
Documentation
Pricing
Pricing information will be available when Certificate Authority Service becomes generally available.
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