Export Certificate

acm_export_certificate

R Documentation

Exports a private certificate issued by a private certificate authority (CA) or a public certificate for use anywhere¶

Description¶

Exports a private certificate issued by a private certificate authority (CA) or a public certificate for use anywhere. The exported file contains the certificate, the certificate chain, and the encrypted private key associated with the public key that is embedded in the certificate. For security, you must assign a passphrase for the private key when exporting it.

For information about exporting and formatting a certificate using the ACM console or CLI, see Export a private certificate and Export a public certificate.

ACM public certificates created prior to June 17, 2025 cannot be exported.

Usage¶

acm_export_certificate(CertificateArn, Passphrase)

Arguments¶

CertificateArn

[required] An Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the issued certificate. This must be of the form:

arn:aws:acm:region:account:certificate/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012

Passphrase

[required] Passphrase to associate with the encrypted exported private key.

When creating your passphrase, you can use any ASCII character except #, $, or %.

If you want to later decrypt the private key, you must have the passphrase. You can use the following OpenSSL command to decrypt a private key. After entering the command, you are prompted for the passphrase.

⁠openssl rsa -in encrypted_key.pem -out decrypted_key.pem⁠

Value¶

A list with the following syntax:

list(
  Certificate = "string",
  CertificateChain = "string",
  PrivateKey = "string"
)

Request syntax¶

svc$export_certificate(
  CertificateArn = "string",
  Passphrase = raw
)