Conclusion

AWS provides several options for deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services in the cloud and hybrid environments. You can leverage AWS Managed Microsoft AD if you no longer want to focus on heavy lifting like managing the availability of the domain controllers, patching, backups, and so on. Or, you can run Active Directory on EC2 instances if you need to have full administrative control on your Active directory. In this whitepaper, we have discussed these two main approaches of deploying Active Directory on AWS and have provided you with guidance and consideration for each of the design. Depending on our deployment pattern, scale, requirements and SLA, you may select one of these options to support your Windows workloads on AWS.