Category: AWS Directory Service

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! Monday means it’s time for another Week in Review post, so, without further ado, let’s dive right in! Last Week’s Launches Here’s some launch announcements from last week you may […]

Our customers build applications that need to serve users that live in all corners of the world. When listening to our customers, they told us that whilst they were comfortable building Active Directory (AD) aware applications on AWS, making them work globally can be a real challenge. Customers told us that AWS Directory Service for […]

Many customers I speak to use Active Directory to manage centralized user authentication and authorization for a variety of applications and services. For these customers, Active Directory is a critical piece of their IT Jigsaws. At AWS, we offer the AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory that provides our customers with a highly available […]

Learn about AWS Services & Solutions – September AWS Online Tech Talks Join us this September to learn about AWS services and solutions. The AWS Online Tech Talks are live, online presentations that cover a broad range of topics at varying technical levels. These tech talks, led by AWS solutions architects and engineers, feature technical […]

The AWS Directory Service allows you to use your existing corporate identities to access AWS services and to simplify cloud-based deployment of Microsoft Windows and Linux applications that are dependent on the availability of a directory. We launched the service last year with support for two types of directories (AD Connector and Simple AD); see […]

If you are tasked with providing and managing user logins to a fleet of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running Linux, I have some good news for you! You can now join these instances to an AWS Directory Service Simple AD directory and manage credentials for your user logins using standard Active Directory […]

AWS Directory Service allows you to connect your AWS resources to an existing on-premises Active Directory or to set up a new, standalone directory in the AWS Cloud (see my post, New AWS Directory Service, to learn more). Until today, all operations on a Directory were initiated through the AWS Management Console. This was convenient, […]

We’ve increased the geographic footprint and international relevance of several AWS services this past month. Here’s a summary: Amazon WorkSpaces and AWS Directory Service are now available in the Asia Pacific (Singapore) region. Amazon ElastiCache is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region. AWS Trusted Advisor, Amazon ElastiCache, and RDS integration with AWS CloudTrail are […]