Viewing and editing a hybrid directory - Amazon Directory Service
Viewing a hybrid directoryUpdating a hybrid directory
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Viewing and editing a hybrid directory

Use the following procedures to view or edit your hybrid directory.

Viewing a hybrid directory

You can view a hybrid directory in the Amazon Directory Service console.

To view detailed directory information

  1. In the Amazon Directory Service console navigation pane, choose Directories.

  2. Choose the directory ID link for your directory. Information about the directory appears on the Directory details page.

Self-managed Active Directory information

This section provides information about your self-managed Active Directory that's joined with Amazon infrastructure.

  • Directory type

  • Directory ID

  • Directory status

  • Networking details for your self-managed AD, such as:

    • VPC

    • Subnets

    • DNS addresses

  • Systems Manager managed nodes

Hybrid directory tabs

You can find the following information about your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD:

  • On the Share & share tab, you can share your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD with other Amazon accounts and view the networking details for your domain controllers.

  • On the Application management tab, you can enable an application access URL for your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD and enable Amazon applications and services for your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD.

  • On the Maintenance tab, you can enable SNS to receive notifications of your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD status and review snapshots of your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD.

  • For more information about the Status field, see Understanding your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD directory status.

Updating a hybrid directory

You can update a hybrid directory in the Amazon Directory Service console to modify DNS settings or recover administrator account access.

To update hybrid directory information

  1. In the Amazon Directory Service console navigation pane, choose Directories.

  2. Choose the directory ID link for your directory to open the Directory details page.

  3. Choose Actions, and then choose Update hybrid directory information.

  4. On the Update hybrid directory information page, you can update your DNS settings or recover your administrator account.

    Update DNS settings (optional)

    Under Self-managed Active Directory information, you can change the following:

    1. Directory DNS Name

    2. DNS IP Addresses

    You can update both settings together or individually. At least one change is required for the update process.

  5. Recover hybrid directory administrator account

    To recover your hybrid directory administrator account, we need temporary access to a user. This access is provided through a secret from Secrets Manager. We use these credentials only once during recovery and don't store them. If your hybrid directory administrator account exists, you don't need to update this secret, even if you updated your self-managed Active Directory administrator user.

    1. Admin credentials secret – We create a hybrid directory administrator account when we create a hybrid directory. If you deleted this secret, enter your Secrets Manager secret for your self-managed AD administrator user.