Creating a hybrid directory - Amazon Directory Service
Creating a hybrid directory
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Creating a hybrid directory

Before creating a hybrid directory, you must create and successfully pass a directory assessment that verifies connectivity and interoperability with your self-managed Active Directory

Creating a hybrid directory with your self-managed AD

Follow these steps to create a hybrid directory with your self-managed AD:

To create a hybrid directory

  1. Open the Amazon Directory Service console for your desired Region.

  2. On the Select directory type page, choose Amazon Managed Microsoft AD.

  3. Under Getting started with Amazon Managed Microsoft AD, select Extend your AD domain with a hybrid directory – new and then choose Next. This directs you to the Create directory assessment page.

  4. Before you can create a hybrid directory, you must first create and successfully pass a directory assessment. To create a directory assessment, follow the steps in Creating directory assessments. Once you have successfully passed a directory assessment, you can continue with this procedure.

  5. Once you have successfully passed a directory assessment, navigate to the Directories page.

  6. On the Directories page, under Trial hybrid directory assessments choose an Assessment ID with a Status of SUCCESS. Then select Create hybrid directory, which directs you to the assessment details page

  7. On the assessment details page confirm this action by selecting Create hybrid directory, which opens the Create hybrid directory using assessment-id page.

  8. On the Create hybrid directory using assessment-id page, Review the self-managed Active Directory information. After confirming the information, select Create hybrid directory.

    After choosing Create hybrid directory, Amazon runs another directory assessment based on this information to confirm that your self-managed AD configuration is still valid. If the directory assessment passes successfully, then we create the hybrid directory.

  9. Choosing Create hybrid directory returns you to the Directories page.

    1. A green banner will appear once the hybrid directory is created successfully.

    2. A red banner will appear if the hybrid directory creation fails. Clean up hybrid directory creation failures by completing the following:

      1. Delete the failed hybrid directory in the console.

      2. Delete any remaining Amazon Reserved OUs in your self-managed AD.

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