Rename your directory's site name - Amazon Directory Service
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Rename your directory's site name

You can rename your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD directory’s default site name so that it matches with your existing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) site names. This makes it faster for Amazon Managed Microsoft AD to find and authenticate your existing AD users in your on-premises directory. The result is a better experience when users login to Amazon resources such as Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS for SQL Server instances that you have joined to your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD directory.

To do that, you must be logged in with the Admin account or with an account that is a member of the Amazon Delegated Sites and Services Administrators group. For more information about this group, see What gets created with your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD Active Directory.

For additional benefits on renaming your site in relation to trusts, see Domain Locator Across a Forest Trust on Microsoft's website.

To rename the Amazon Managed Microsoft AD site name

  1. Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.

  2. Locate an Amazon EC2 instance that is joined to your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD directory. Select the instance and then choose Connect.

  3. In the Server Manager window, choose Tools. Then choose Active Directory Sites and Services.

  4. In the left pane, expand the Sites folder, right-click the site name (default is Default-Site-Name), and then choose Rename.

  5. Type the new site name, and then choose Enter.