Patent ID: 11888997
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon executable instructions that, as a result of being executed by one or more processors of a computer system, cause the computer system to at least:
provide, to a client computer system, an interface for creating a private certificate authority and performing an operation to one or more digital certificates;
obtain a request in response to the interface to create a first private certificate authority over a first communication channel within a first network provided by a computing resource service provider;
provision, at least in part by a certificate management service, a computer system to operate as the first private certificate authority in accordance with a parameter specified with the request within the first network;
obtain, at the certificate management service, a request to perform an operation to a digital certificate of the one or more digital certificates, where the request includes an application programming interface (API) call directed to the certificate management service;
identify, from a plurality of certificate authorities that includes a public certificate authority and a second private certificate authority, that the second private certificate authority issued the digital certificate and is:
provisioned at least in part by the certificate management services; and
accessible through the API provided by the certificate management service; and

cause, based at least in part on the identification, the operation to be performed by at least providing the second private certificate authority with the request through a second communication channel of the certificate management service within an environment, the second communication channel comprising a distinct protocol from the first communication channel.