Amazon Directory Services is a service offered as part of Amazon Web Services. It provides an a managed Active Directory endpoint as an alternative creating an entire EC2 instance just to act as a Windows Domain Controller.
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AWS access keys (for CLI authentication, etc..) for users from a SAML identity provider, or AD connector?
I've been looking in to getting the AWS (web) console hooked up to an AD or ADFS setup for managing users. It was reasonable easy to get working with a SAML Identity Provider in IAM and some existing ADFS infrastructure.
The problem is that users…

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Simple AD - change domain membership
I have one Simple AD configured in a primary AWS account and a few Windows EC2 instances are joined to this Simple AD. I want to migrate my primary account Windows instances which are joined to the Simple AD of the primary AWS account to my…

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Enable AWS Management Console in AWS Directory Service SimpleAD Programmatically
I am trying to automate the deployment of an AWS Directory Service SimpleAD using CloudFormation. I would like to enable access to the AWS Management Console programmatically via CloudFormation or API calls.
I've spent quite some time going through…

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Not able to associate EC2 instances to an Active Directory using an Auto Scaling Group
I am trying to deploy a Auto Scaling Group that has all its EC2 instances connected automatically to the AWS Directive Service. I followed all the steps in this tutorial :…

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How to connect to Amazon Simple AD using ldaps?
I cannot seem to connect to Amazon Simple AD using an ldaps:// url (with the default port number 636). I am getting "Connection refused".
It works with the non-encrypted ldap:// (port 389).
Is there something I need to enable on the AD or VPC or…

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Removing inaccessible root CA from AWS managed Microsoft AD
I'm using Microsoft AD provided by AWS. But the machine that the root CA was on was terminated on accident. I tried recovering with snapshots which did not work, and I can't provision a new root CA as we get the following error when we…

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Server outside of AWS VPC how to join the AWS simple AD?
I m starting to explore the AWS simple AD services.
I have AWS simple AD setup in my AWS VPC, I have one window and one Ubuntu EC2 instances setup in this VPC as well.
I use this Windows server to create users and groups, and it also works well for…

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AWS authentication to Cognito for AWS Resources
I am trying to reduce the number of login a user needs to gain access to multiple application. I have aws ad set that provides me authentication to vpn and mail client. No i need a website that I can use ad creds to allow users to upload,dowload and…

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Seemless AD join with AWS AD Connector in private subnet
I have the following network setup and try to join EC2 instances with an on-prem active directory.
Ec2 running inside a private non-routable subnet
Ad connector runs in a on-prem connected subnet
the domain is dns resolvable throughout the whole…

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Instances become unreachable after changing EC2 type
I was unable to log back into some EC2 instances using my domain administrator account after changing their type from T2 to T3.
I was able to log into most servers using their root admin credentials, but it looked as though the DNS server addresses…

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