AWS Directory Service is a managed service that allows you to connect your AWS resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory or to set up a new, stand-alone directory in the AWS Cloud. Connecting to an on-premises directory is easy and once this connection is established, all users can access AWS resources and applications with their existing corporate credentials. You can also launch managed, Samba-based directories in a matter of minutes, simplifying the deployment and management of Linux and Microsoft Windows workloads in the AWS Cloud.
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AWS Directory Service enables your IT administrators to use their existing corporate credentials to access the AWS Management Console via AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to manage all your AWS resources (e.g. Amazon EC2 instances or Amazon S3 buckets).
AWS Directory Service enables your end-users to use their existing corporate credentials when accessing AWS resources or applications.
You can use AWS Directory Service to provision a Microsoft Active Directory compatible (Samba) directory that supports commonly used features such as users, group memberships, domain-joining Windows computers, Kerberos single sign-on (SSO) and Group Policies. This makes it even easier to deploy and manage Amazon EC2 instances running Linux and Windows, and deploy Windows applications such as Sharepoint, and custom .NET & SQL Server based web applications.
There is no software to install and AWS handles all of the patches, back-ups and upgrades. To provide high availability, AWS automatically runs your directory infrastructure across multiple Availability Zones.
Getting started is easy. Using the AWS Management Console, you can provision a directory and you pay an hourly charge only for what you use, whether you require a directory for a handful of users or thousands.
