Announcing support for on-premises Windows workloads with Certificate Authority Service

The use of digital certificates to establish trust across our digital infrastructure continues to grow at a rapid pace, driven by development and deployment of cloud-based, containerized, microservice-based applications and the proliferation of connected Internet of Things and smart devices.  Google Cloud Certificate Authority Service (CAS) provides a highly scalable and available private CA to help organizations address the growing need for certificates. With CAS, you can offload time-consuming tasks associated with operating a private CA, like hardware provisioning, infrastructure security, software deployment, high-availability configuration, disaster recovery, backups, and more to the cloud. While a cloud-based CA is uniquely suited to the scalability and availability requirements of cloud-native environments, organizations who have adopted cloud-based CAs increasingly want to extend the capabilities and value of their CA to their on-premises environments as well, where certificate