diff --git a/docs/user-guide/services/index.md b/docs/user-guide/services/index.md
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@@ -423,6 +423,44 @@ with the user-specified `loadBalancerIP`. If the `loadBalancerIP` field is not s
 an ephemeral IP will be assigned to the loadBalancer. If the `loadBalancerIP` is specified, but the
 cloud provider does not support the feature, the field will be ignored.
 
+#### SSL support on AWS
+For partial SSL support on clusters running on AWS, starting with 1.3 two
+annotations can be added to a `LoadBalancer` service:
+
+```
+    "metadata": {
+        "name": "my-service",
+        "annotations": {
+            "service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-ssl-cert": "arn:aws:acm:us-east-1:123456789012:certificate/12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012"
+        }
+    },
+```
+
+The first specifies which certificate to use. It can be either a
+certificate from a third party issuer that was uploaded to IAM or one created
+within AWS Certificate Manager.
+
+```
+    "metadata": {
+        "name": "my-service",
+        "annotations": {
+            "service.beta.kubernetes.io/aws-load-balancer-backend-protocol=": "(https|http|ssl|tcp)"
+        }
+    },
+```
+
+The second annotation specificies which protocol a pod speaks. For HTTPS and
+SSL, the ELB will expect the pod to authenticate itself over the encrypted
+connection.
+
+HTTP and HTTPS will select layer 7 proxying: the ELB will terminate
+the connection with the user, parse headers and inject the `X-Forwarded-For`
+header with the user's IP address (pods will only see the IP address of the
+ELB at the other end of its connection) when forwarding requests.
+
+TCP and SSL will select layer 4 proxying: the ELB will forward traffic without
+modifying the headers.
+
 ### External IPs
 
 If there are external IPs that route to one or more cluster nodes, Kubernetes services can be exposed on those