What is directory service administration AWS?
AWS Directory Service Administration Guide Share your directory Directory sharing makes AWS Managed Microsoft AD a more cost-effective way of integrating with Amazon EC2 in multiple accounts and VPCs. Directory sharing is available in all AWS regions where AWS managed Microsoft AD is offered.
What is Amazon cloud directory (ACD)?
Amazon Cloud Directory is a highly available multi-tenant directory-based store in AWS. These directories scale automatically to hundreds of millions of objects as needed for applications. This lets operations staff focus on developing and deploying applications that drive the business, not managing directory infrastructure.
What is AWS Global Directory in AWS?
AWS services AWS services such as Amazon RDS for SQL Server and Amazon FSx connect to the local instances of the global directory. This allows your users to sign in once to AD-aware applications that run in AWS as well as AWS services like Amazon RDS for SQL Server in any AWS Region.
How do I find the name of my AWS directory service directory?
You can open the System Properties dialog box directly by running the following from a command prompt on the instance. %SystemRoot%\system32\control.exe sysdm.cpl 5. In the Member of field, select Domain, enter the fully qualified name of your AWS Directory Service directory, and choose OK. 6.
What is AWS directory services used for?
AWS Directory Service provides multiple directory choices for customers who want to use existing Microsoft AD or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)–aware applications in the cloud. It also offers those same choices to developers who need a directory to manage users, groups, devices, and access.
Does Amazon have an Active Directory?
AWS Microsoft AD (Standard Edition) offers you a highly available and cost-effective primary directory in the AWS Cloud that you can use to manage users, groups, and computers. It enables you to join Amazon EC2 instances to your domain easily and supports many AWS and third-party applications and services.
What is the primary benefit of AWS directory services?
It enables you to leverage your existing on-premises user credentials to access cloud resources such as the AWS Management Console, Amazon Workspaces, Amazon Chime, and Windows workloads in the cloud.
What is the purpose of a directory server?
Directory Server provides a central repository for storing and managing information. Almost any kind of information can be stored, from identity profiles and access privileges to information about application and network resources, printers, network devices and manufactured parts.
What is AWS directory service simple AD?
Simple AD is a managed directory powered by a Samba 4 Active Directory Compatible Server. It provides a subset of the capabilities offered by Microsoft Active Directory, including Kerberos SSO, computers joined to domains, and Group Policy–based management.
What is Amazon SSO?
AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is a cloud service that allows you to grant your users access to AWS resources, such as Amazon EC2 instances, across multiple AWS accounts. By default, AWS SSO now provides a directory that you can use to create users, organize them in groups, and set permissions across those groups.
What is AWS xray?
AWS X-Ray is a service that helps developers analyze and debug distributed applications. Customers use X-Ray to monitor application traces, including the performance of calls to other downstream components or services, in either cloud-hosted applications or from their own machines during development.
Does AWS have LDAP?
Yes. AWS Managed Microsoft AD supports Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over Secure Socket Layer (SSL) / Transport Layer Security (TLS), also known as LDAPS, in both client and server roles. When acting as a server, AWS Managed Microsoft AD supports LDAPS over ports 636 (SSL) and 389 (TLS).
What is the main characteristic that makes Amazon cloud directory a better option than traditional directory systems?
Unlike existing traditional directory systems, Cloud Directory does not limit organizing directory objects in a single fixed hierarchy. In Cloud Directory, you can organize directory objects into multiple hierarchies to support multiple organizational pivots and relationships across directory information.
What does directory service provide?
The directory service provides transparency to protocols and network topology, permitting users to access resources without having to be aware of the physical location of the devices. It's an important component of the network operating system and is a central information repository for a service delivery platform.
What problem does a directory service solve?
Ideally, a directory service is able to integrate with all of the IT resources used in an organization, so that IT admins can centrally manage what users have access to and what they don't need access to.
What are the different types of directory services?
Types of Directory ServicesLDAP — Stores user and group information in an LDAP-based directory server.Key File — A text file that contains the user's password in a hashed format, and the list of groups to which the user belongs. ... Digest File — Stores user and group information based on encrypted username and password.
Easily migrate directory-aware, on-premises workloads
AWS Managed Microsoft AD makes it easy to migrate AD-dependent applications and Windows workloads to AWS. With AWS Managed Microsoft AD, you can use Group Policies to manage EC2 instances and run AD-dependent applications in the AWS Cloud without the need to deploy your own AD infrastructure.
Use actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
Take advantage of actual Microsoft Active Directory to manage your users, groups, and devices. Use familiar AD administration tools and features, such as Group Policy objects (GPOs), domain trusts, fine-grain password policies, group Managed Service Account (gMSA), schema extensions, and Kerberos-based single sign-on.
Share a single directory for cloud workloads
Share a single directory for all your AD-aware Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances, and AWS End User Computing services, such as Amazon WorkSpaces. You can also share your AD with multiple accounts. Using AWS Managed Microsoft AD helps avoid the complexity of replicating and synchronizing data across multiple directories.
Easily extend existing domains
AWS Managed Microsoft AD makes it easy to extend your existing Active Directory to AWS. It enables you to leverage your existing on-premises user credentials to access cloud resources such as the AWS Management Console, Amazon Workspaces, Amazon Chime, and Windows workloads in the cloud.
Centrally manage application access and devices in AWS
AWS Managed Microsoft AD provides you the option to administer your on-premises users, groups, applications, and systems without the complexity of running and maintaining an on-premises, highly available AD. You can easily join your existing computers, laptops, and printers to an AWS Managed Microsoft AD domain.
Simplify administration with a managed service
AWS Managed Microsoft AD is built on highly available, AWS-managed infrastructure. Each directory is deployed across multiple Availability Zones, and monitoring automatically detects and replaces domain controllers that fail. In addition, data replication and automated daily snapshots are configured for you.
Provide your on-premises AD users quick access to AWS
Using an AD trust with AWS Managed Microsoft AD keeps your on-premises and cloud directories separated while allowing all your users access to AWS as needed.
Actual Microsoft Active Directory
AWS Managed Microsoft AD is actual Microsoft Active Directory (AD) running on AWS-managed infrastructure. This enables you to administer your users and devices in AWS Managed Microsoft AD by using the tools you already know, such as Active Directory Administrative Center and Active Directory Users and Computers.
High availability
Because directories are mission-critical infrastructure, AWS Managed Microsoft AD is deployed in high availability and across multiple Availability Zones. You can also scale out your AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory by deploying additional domain controllers to increase the resiliency of your managed directory for even higher availability.
AWS-managed infrastructure
AWS Managed Microsoft AD runs on AWS managed infrastructure with monitoring that automatically detects and replaces domain controllers that fail. In addition, data replication and automated daily snapshots are configured for you. You do not need to install software, and AWS handles all of the patching and software updates.
Multi-region replication
Multi-region replication enables you to deploy and use a single AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory across multiple AWS Regions. This makes it easier and more cost-effective for you to deploy and manage your Microsoft Windows and Linux workloads globally.
HIPAA and PCI Eligible
You can use AWS Managed Microsoft AD to build and run AD–aware cloud applications that are subject to the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) or Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance.
Trust support
You can easily integrate AWS Managed Microsoft AD with your existing AD by using AD trust relationships. Using trusts enables you to use your existing Active Directory to control which AD users can access your AWS resources.
Group-based policies
AWS Managed Microsoft AD allows you to manage users and devices using native Active Directory Group Policy objects (GPOs). You can create GPOs with existing tools, such as the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC).
General
AWS Directory Service is a managed service offering, providing directories that contain information about your organization, including users, groups, computers, and other resources. As a managed offering, AWS Directory Service is designed to reduce management tasks, thereby allowing you to focus more of your time and resources on your business.
Multi-region replication
Multi-region replication is a feature that enables you to deploy and use a single AWS Managed Microsoft AD directory across multiple AWS Regions. This makes it easier and more cost-effective for you to deploy and manage your Microsoft Windows and Linux workloads globally.
Seamless domain join
Seamless domain join is a feature that allows you to join your Amazon EC2 for Windows Server and Amazon EC2 for Linux instances seamlessly to a domain, at the time of launch and from the AWS Management Console. You can join instances to AWS Managed Microsoft AD that you launch in the AWS Cloud.
IAM integration
Q: How does AWS Directory Service enable single sign-on (SSO) to the AWS Management Console?
Compliance
Q: Can I use AWS Managed Microsoft AD for AWS Cloud workloads that are subject to compliance standards?
Choose from any of the following directories
Microsoft AD is a Microsoft Active Directory hosted on the AWS Cloud. It integrates most Active Directory features with AWS applications.
AWS Directory Service Documentation
Describes how to create and manage an AWS Directory Service directory.
Documentation
AWS Directory Service offers a comprehensive set of directory options to support your cloud workloads. Learn about the best practices, choosing the best directory option for your use case, developer and administration guide in the AWS Directory Service documentation.
Tutorials and Guides
Get started with AWS Managed Microsoft AD quickly using the following tutorials and guides.
Using the AWS Directory Service API
You can use the Directory Service API to programmatically automate the provisioning and configuration of directories. You can also use the EC2 API to programmatically join both EC2 Linux and Windows instances to a domain.
