get_certificate

get_certificate(**kwargs)

Retrieves an Amazon-issued certificate and its certificate chain. The chain consists of the certificate of the issuing CA and the intermediate certificates of any other subordinate CAs. All of the certificates are base64 encoded. You can use OpenSSL to decode the certificates and inspect individual fields.

See also: AWS API Documentation

Request Syntax

response = client.get_certificate(
    CertificateArn='string'
)
Parameters
CertificateArn (string) --

[REQUIRED]

String that contains a certificate ARN in the following format:

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

For more information about ARNs, see Amazon Resource Names (ARNs).

Return type
dict
Returns
Response Syntax
{
    'Certificate': 'string',
    'CertificateChain': 'string'
}

Response Structure

  • (dict) --
    • Certificate (string) --

      The ACM-issued certificate corresponding to the ARN specified as input.

    • CertificateChain (string) --

      Certificates forming the requested certificate's chain of trust. The chain consists of the certificate of the issuing CA and the intermediate certificates of any other subordinate CAs.

Exceptions

  • ACM.Client.exceptions.ResourceNotFoundException
  • ACM.Client.exceptions.RequestInProgressException
  • ACM.Client.exceptions.InvalidArnException