SSL/TLS certificate works without ServerName directive on one EC2, won't on another

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I've purchased a TLS certificate from godaddy for a domain (say somebeta.com - actual is different). The DNS points to an AWS EC2 Linux server which I operate. The httpd web server on this EC2 serves the REST API requests.

I've installed the certificate on the AWS EC2 server which points to beta.com, and at no place in httpd.conf or ssl.conf have I specified the ServerName directive. Every thing works nicely, https://somebeta.com works, green color appears, all is good.

Now I create a new subdomain routing on godaddy DNS, by pointing alpha.something.beta to another EC2 instance. When I install this certificate on another EC2 server, I get following in ssl_error_logs:

ip-<Some IP>.ap-south-1.compute.internal:443:0 server certificate does NOT include an ID which matches the server name

I looked on SO, and found that the hostname of the machine should match the CN in the certificate. If it does not, then SSL/TLS would fail (I believe mod_ssl checks and fails this).

My question is, I've not set the hostname of the actual somebeta.com EC2 server, but still the SSL/TLS works great. How is it happening? Does mod_ssl do some intelligence to figure that the localhost is actually pointing to somebeta.com (by doing DNS/etc) and that's why it works?

Please don't close the question too early, I understand the working of SSL/TLS in its entirety, I just need to know how the thing is being validated by mod_ssl in httpd. Does the absence or presence of ServerName directive matter always, or only sometimes?

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