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Distributed teams are exactly who gets burned by manual renewals (nobody's sure whose laptop has the private key, the cert expires at 3am in someone else's timezone). Since **March 15, 2026 all new public certs are capped at 200 days**, dropping to 100 days in March 2027 and 47 days in March 2029. So optimize for automation + shared visibility, not price or brand.\n\n## Public-facing certs\n\n**1. Let's Encrypt** - the default, and I'd need a specific reason not to use it. Free, ~54% of all certs issued, ACME-native, 90-day certs you renew with Certbot / acme.sh / cert-manager / Caddy. For a remote team the win is that renewal lives in your infra, not in a person.\n\n**2. AWS Certificate Manager** - if you're on AWS, this is better than Let's Encrypt. Free public certs, auto-renews 60 days out on ALB/CloudFront, and since July 2026 it exposes a managed **ACME endpoint** (Amazon Trust Services, 45-day certs) so Certbot/cert-manager/acme.sh work for non-AWS endpoints too. Access is governed by IAM, which means your existing team offboarding already covers it.\n\n**3. Cloudflare** - Univers", "answer_truncated": true, "measurement": "One answer from one engine on one date. Not a ranking and not a claim about the world; brands the engine did not name are not recorded.", "limitation": "Coverage: Claude (Anthropic) with web search. Other engines not included.", "alerts": {"name": "Answer Watch Pro", "price_usd": 79, "period": "month", "gets": "daily change alerts for up to 5 brands in what one AI answer engine says, history, CSV export. Coverage: Claude (Anthropic) with web search. Other engines not included", "url": "https://bikoosh.com/answers"}}