How do I install LetsEncrypt SSL onto AWS Elastic Beanstalk application running Tomcat 8 with Java 8 Platform

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I would like this website www.albunack.net to support SSL

It is installed as a Java WAR file onto AWS Elastic Beanstalk at albunack.elasticbeanstalk.com, dns (as single instance) configuration is under Route 53 control.

I don't have much system admin knowledge, what is the easiest way to enable SSL for this

This is a very specific request, so I'm hoping for a series of specific steps to achieve this rather than general advice.

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From AWS recommendation, using ElasticBeanstalk, the easiest way to handle the SSL is over AWS Load Balancer.

Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/configuring-https.html

From AWS, you can easily get yourself a free SSL certificate which is issued by AWS, or import your self-signed certificate into AWS ACM.

If we choose ElasticBeanstalk, AWS recommends us going with Load Balancer & Auto-Scaling to leverage all of good features that provided by ElasticBeanstalk such as Blue-Green deployment model.

Amazon Lightsail is a choice

If you manage your application with just a single EC2 instance under ElasticBeanstalk, I recommend using Amazon Lightsail which cost is much more better.

Reference: https://lightsail.aws.amazon.com/ls/docs/en_us/articles/amazon-lightsail-using-lets-encrypt-certificates-with-nginx

How to install SSL on a standalone EC2 instance

Here is a very old post but you can see the overview of steps on doing it on a single EC2 instance. https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/going-https-on-amazon-ec2-ubuntu-14-04-with-lets-encrypt-certbot-on-nginx-696770649e76/

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