How do I enable HTTPS for my Elastic Beanstalk Java application?

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My instance is a single instance, no load balancer.

I cannot seem to add a load balancer to my existing app instance.

Other recommendations regarding Elastic Load Balancer are obsolete - there seems to be no such service in AWS.

I do not need caching or edge delivery - my application is entirely transactional APIs, so probably don't need CloudFront.

I have a domain name and a name server (external to AWS). I have a certificate (generated in Certificate Manager).

How do I enable HTTPS for my Elastic Beanstalk Java application?

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CloudFront is the easiest and cheapest way to add SSL termination, because AWS will handle it all for you through its integration with certificate manager.

If you add an ELB, you have to run it 24/7 and it will double the cost of a single instance server.

If you want to support SSL termination on the server itself, you're going to have to do that yourself (using your web container, such as apache, nginx, tomcat or whatever you're running). Its not easy to setup.

Even if you don't need caching, CloudFront is going to be worth it just for handling your certificate (which is as simple as selecting the certificate from a drop-down).

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I ended up using CloudFront.

That created a problem that cookies were not being passed through.

I created a custom Caching Policy to allow the cookies, and in doing so, I also changed the caching TTLs to be very low. This served my purposes.

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