Using a wildcard SSL with a CNAME pointing to EC2 instance

Question

I have a CNAME on my domain pointing to an Amazon EC2 instance. I would like to utilize my wildcard SSL certificate to secure this connection - https://secure.mydomain.com would point to the EC2 instance.

Is such a thing possible? Unfortunately I am fairly new to both SSL certificates and EC2 instances. Is this where Route 53 might come into play?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Answer 1

Another option is to put the cert on an elastic load balancer, and then point that to your instance. This makes it easier to scale, and you don't have to worry about elastic IP's or any extra configuration when rolling out new instances.

Answer 2

Yea you can do this. You just need the cert on your Ec2 instance, make sure port 443 is open in your security group. And make sure whatever web server you're using is configured properly for SSL.