A company wants to secure its consumer web application by using SSL/TLS to encrypt traffic. Which AWS service can the company use to meet this goal?

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) is a service that lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private Secure Sockets Layer/Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS) certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources. SSL/TLS certificates are used to secure network communications and establish the identity of websites over the internet. ACM handles the complexity of creating and managing these certificates, which are essential for enabling encrypted HTTPS traffic for a web application.

A. AWS WAF is a web application firewall that protects against common web exploits. It does not provision or manage SSL/TLS certificates.
B. AWS Shield is a managed Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) protection service. Its purpose is to safeguard applications, not to manage encryption certificates.
C. Amazon VPC provides an isolated network environment. While it is a foundational security component, it does not handle SSL/TLS certificate management for web traffic.

1. AWS Certificate Manager. (n.d.). AWS Documentation. Retrieved from https://aws.amazon.com/certificate-manager/. (See "What is AWS Certificate Manager?" section).

2. AWS Well-Architected Framework. (2023). Security Pillar. Whitepaper. Page 37. Retrieved from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/security-pillar/wellarchitected-security-pillar.pdf. (Discusses implementing a secure network configuration, including encryption in transit).