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Google Cloud Certificate Manager

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Spec sheet

Purpose
Certificate Manager simplifies the acquisition, deployment, and management of TLS certificates.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Security
Google-managed certificates remove the need for customers to manage certificate private keys, and Certificate Manager supports mTLS on load balancers.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
API quota
The default Certificate Manager API request, read request, and write request quotas are each 300 per minute.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Certificate maps
Certificate maps assign certificates to hostnames and can be reused across multiple target proxies.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Domain validation
Domain ownership can be verified using DNS-based or load balancer-based authorization.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Issuance limits
Google-managed certificates allow at most 100 subject alternative name domains with DNS authorization and five with load balancer authorization.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Issuing authorities
Publicly trusted Google-managed certificates are issued through the Public Certificate Authority or Let's Encrypt; privately trusted Google-managed certificates use Certificate Authority Service.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Managed certificates
Google-managed certificates can be automatically issued and renewed, while self-managed certificates are uploaded and managed by the user.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Management interfaces
Certificates can be managed using the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, or Certificate Manager API.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Pricing requirement
Using Certificate Manager requires a billing account, and Public CA-issued certificates are free while provisioning them through Certificate Manager can incur charges.Read 4 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com
Public certificate authority
The Public Certificate Authority feature uses ACME to provide publicly trusted certificates for endpoints users manage.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com
Supported services
It supports global and regional certificates on Google Cloud load balancers, regional certificates on Secure Web Proxy, and global certificates on Media CDN.Read 4 Oct 2026 · docs.cloud.google.com

Plans and prices

Certificate Manager Price not published Per certificate per month: 0–100 certificates are $0.00; 100–2,000 are $0.000273973 per hour; 2,000 and above are $0.000136986 per hour. RSA-3072/RSA-4096 deployment and qualifying mTLS connections cost $0.45 per 1,000,000; Public CA-issued certificates are free. Requires a billing account · Regional certificates are counted and tiered separately from global certificates · Other services, including Certificate Authority Service, may incur additional charges Read 4 Oct 2026 · cloud.google.com

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