Google Cloud Certificate Manager
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Google Cloud Certificate Manager, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Google Cloud Certificate Manager's own pricing page, checked 4 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Certificate Manager | — | Requires a billing account · Regional certificates are counted and tiered separately from global certificates · Other services, including Certificate Authority Service, may incur additional charges · 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. |
The facts
Each one read from Google Cloud Certificate Manager's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API quota
- The default Certificate Manager API request, read request, and write request quotas are each 300 per minute.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Certificate maps
- Certificate maps assign certificates to hostnames and can be reused across multiple target proxies.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Domain validation
- Domain ownership can be verified using DNS-based or load balancer-based authorization.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Issuance limits
- Google-managed certificates allow at most 100 subject alternative name domains with DNS authorization and five with load balancer authorization.checked 4 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Managed certificates
- Google-managed certificates can be automatically issued and renewed, while self-managed certificates are uploaded and managed by the user.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Management interfaces
- Certificates can be managed using the Google Cloud console, Google Cloud CLI, or Certificate Manager API.checked 4 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Public certificate authority
- The Public Certificate Authority feature uses ACME to provide publicly trusted certificates for endpoints users manage.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Certificate Manager simplifies the acquisition, deployment, and management of TLS certificates.checked 4 Oct 2026
- Security
- Google-managed certificates remove the need for customers to manage certificate private keys, and Certificate Manager supports mTLS on load balancers.checked 4 Oct 2026
- 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.checked 4 Oct 2026
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