Certificate in Pending state in AWS Certificate Manager

Question

Our project is deployed on Elastic Beanstalk and I want to run this on HTTPs. I created my certificate on AWS Certificate Manager and choose DNS verification option. I added provided data in my Godaddy DNS records. Below is my sample data

Domain Name | Record Name | Record Type | Record Value 

example.com | _8046ecb910c52234234234234232ecae.example.com. | CNAME | _81b05686qweerttcxsaxasdadas5a566.tljzshvwok.acm-validations.aws. 

*.example.com | _8046ecb910c52234234234234232ecae.example.com. | CNAME |  _81b05686qweerttcxsaxasdadas5a566.tljzshvwok.acm-validations.aws.

AWS has given my two records for example.com and *.example.com but both records are same. So I added one CNAME record in Godaddy DNS entries. I waited for three days and my certificate was still in pending state which in the end expired. I created a new one and I have been waiting for 24 hours and it is still in pending state. I cannot use Email verification method as I am not owner of this domain.

Answer 1

An apparently common error is to paste the entire hostname into a box that does not expect an FQDN, thus creating a record that actually looks like this in DNS (though you may not observe it this way on the screen):

_8046ecb910c52234234234234232ecae.example.com.example.com

For the "hostname," just use _8046ecb910c52234234234234232ecae when creating the record.

After creating it, use dig or nslookup to verify that it resolves as expected.

Answer 2

I had similar issue with AWS certificate in 'Pending validation' state for quite some time. After few tries I finally got it to get in 'Success' state. It might vary by domain registrar , in my case it was NameCheap.

Refer the screenshots from AWS ACM and NameCheap to follow the step that got it working for me: