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Using AWS ACM with xrdp on Ubuntu ~ Since We Can Export Certs Now | by Teri Radichel | Cloud Security | Jul, 2025

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Here’s the goal of this post: Use AWS ACM with xrdp on an Ubuntu instance. Let’s ask Amazon Q:

Why? See my last post:

TLDR;

This took way too long. Here are some key points.

  1. I created a cert with CloudFormation but you can’t export that. Q hallucinates that you can change the export setting via CloudFormation but you can’t. Maybe it is coming.
  2. I created a cert manually and I swear I did not change the protocol (the default is RSA) but I ended up with something else and had to redeploy.

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