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Asked: 2026-06-15T07:38:58+00:00

I have a Windows/.NET elastic beanstalk instance with an SSL cert setup on the

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I have a Windows/.NET elastic beanstalk instance with an SSL cert setup on the load balancer. By default this creates a port forwarding from https/443 to http/80. I would like to have 443/https on the load balancer forward to 443 https on the beanstalk instance.

I was trying to do what is documented here:

I reconfigured the corresponding EC2 instance EC2–>Load Balancers–>Listeners so that HTTPS forward to HTTPS configured with my SSL cert, the problem is when I try and make an HTTPS request after that it just times out. It seems like the ElasticBeanstalk instance doesn’t like me modifying the EC2 Listeners.

Any ideas?

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  1. Editorial Team

    To get SSL to work in between the LoadBalancer and the Elastic beanstalk I need several things:

    1. Configure the EC2 LoadBalancer to forward port 443 to port 443 (on SSL). I already had this part in the question above.

    2. Configure the IIS on the EC2 instance like any other site with SSL:
      a). Install SSL Cert on EC2 instance in IIS.
      b). Add https/443 binding with the SSL cert.

    The problem was I was expecting #2 for free. On Windows Azure this is pretty much free when you configure certificates on your instance, but as of now this is not the case on AMZN ElasticBeanstalk for windows.

    I also would expect #2 to be scriptable so I could scale up or down instances without have to manually do #2. I was looking for some easy way to tie in power-shell scripts on my EB instances but they apparently don’t have this feature either.

    My final solution was to create a custom vm images (AMI) with the SSL cert installed an the https binding already added. If I do this I can deploy the ElasticBeanstalk image with my SSL stuff already setup. Doing this then allows me to scale up or down without any configuration.

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