Enabling Amazon Web Services Management Console access with Amazon Managed Microsoft AD credentials
Amazon Directory Service allows you to grant members of your directory access to the Amazon Web Services Management Console. By default, your directory members do not have access to any Amazon resources. You assign IAM roles to your directory members to give them access to the various Amazon services and resources. The IAM role defines the services, resources, and level of access that your directory members have.
Before you can grant console access to your directory members, your directory must have an access URL. For more information about how to view directory details and get your access URL, see Viewing Amazon Managed Microsoft AD directory information. For more information about how to create an access URL, see Creating an access URL for Amazon Managed Microsoft AD.
For more information about how to create and assign IAM roles to your directory members, see Granting Amazon Managed Microsoft AD users and groups access to Amazon resources with IAM roles.
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Access to the Amazon Web Services Management Console is a Regional feature of Amazon Managed Microsoft AD. If you are using Multi-Region replication, the following procedures must be applied separately in each Region. For more information, see Global vs Regional features.
Enabling Amazon Web Services Management Console access
By default, console access is not enabled for any directory. To enable console access for your directory users and groups, perform the following steps:
To enable console access
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In the Amazon Directory Service console
navigation pane, choose Directories. -
On the Directories page, choose your directory ID.
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On the Directory details page, do one of the following:
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If you have multiple Regions showing under Multi-Region replication, select the Region where you want to enable access to the Amazon Web Services Management Console, and then choose the Application management tab. For more information, see Primary vs additional Regions.
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If you do not have any Regions showing under Multi-Region replication, choose the Application management tab.
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Under the Amazon Web Services Management Console section, choose Enable. Console access is now enabled for your directory.
Important
Before users can sign-in to the console with your access URL, you must first add your users to the IAM role. For general information about assigning users to IAM roles, see Assigning users or groups to an existing IAM role. After the IAM roles have been assigned, users can then access the console using your access URL. For example, if your directory access URL is example-corp.awsapps.com, the URL to access the console is https://example-corp.awsapps.com/console/.
Disabling Amazon Web Services Management Console access
To disable Amazon Web Services Management Console access for your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD directory users and groups, perform the following steps:
To disable console access
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In the Amazon Directory Service console
navigation pane, choose Directories. -
On the Directories page, choose your directory ID.
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On the Directory details page, do one of the following:
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If you have multiple Regions showing under Multi-Region replication, select the Region where you want to disable access to the Amazon Web Services Management Console, and then choose the Application management tab. For more information, see Primary vs additional Regions.
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If you do not have any Regions showing under Multi-Region replication, choose the Application management tab.
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Under the Amazon Web Services Management Console section, choose Disable. Console access is now disabled for your directory.
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If any IAM roles have been assigned to users or groups in the directory, the Disable button may be unavailable. In this case, you must remove all IAM role assignments for the directory before proceeding, including assignments for users or groups in your directory that have been deleted, which will show as Deleted User or Deleted Group.
After all IAM role assignments have been removed, repeat the steps above.
Setting Amazon Web Services Management Console login session length
By default, users have 1 hour to use their session after successfully signing in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console before they are logged out. After that, users must sign in again to start the next 1 hour session before being logged off again. You can use the following procedure to change the length of time to up to 12 hours per session.
To set Amazon Web Services Management Console login session length
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In the Amazon Directory Service console
navigation pane, choose Directories. -
On the Directories page, choose your directory ID.
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On the Directory details page, do one of the following:
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If you have multiple Regions showing under Multi-Region replication, select the Region where you want to set the login session length, and then choose the Application management tab. For more information, see Primary vs additional Regions.
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If you do not have any Regions showing under Multi-Region replication, choose the Application management tab.
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Under the Amazon apps & services section, choose Amazon Management Console.
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In the Manage Access to Amazon Resource dialog box, choose Continue.
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In the Assign users and groups to IAM roles page, under Set login session length, edit the numbered value, and then choose Save.