I have a self hosted rest api on a windows EC2 instance in AWS which is being used by a mobile application. I would like to install a certificate to make the http calls go over ssl layer.
I also have a domain and a website hosted on bluehost.com (hosting provider) which is not using the api at all.
From what I searched and understood is that I can create a free AWS certificate via the cert manager and add it to a load balancer that will sit in front of my EC2 instance, then create a subdomain for my domain on bluehost.com which will redirect the traffic to the load balancer. (Correct me if I'm wrong here)
I would like to skip the load balancer and also use my own positive SSL certificate instead of the one that is offered by the cert manager on AWS. Is there a way to achieve this? If yes could you please provide the steps that I would have to follow ?