Tutorial: Setting up your base Amazon Managed Microsoft AD test lab in Amazon - Amazon Directory Service
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Tutorial: Setting up your base Amazon Managed Microsoft AD test lab in Amazon

This tutorial teaches you how to set up your Amazon environment to prepare for a new Amazon Managed Microsoft AD installation that uses a new Amazon EC2 instance running Windows Server 2019. It then teaches you to use typical Active Directory administration tools to manage your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD environment from your EC2 Windows instance. By the time you complete the tutorial, you will have set up the network prerequisites and have configured a new Amazon Managed Microsoft AD forest.

As shown in the following illustration, the lab you create from this tutorial is the foundational component for hands-on learning about Amazon Managed Microsoft AD. You can later add optional tutorials for more hands-on experience. This tutorial series is ideal for anyone who is new to Amazon Managed Microsoft AD and wants a test lab for evaluation purposes. This tutorial takes approximately 1 hour to complete.

Diagram showing tutorial steps: 1 set up your environment, 2 create your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD, 3 deploy an Amazon EC2, and 4 test the lab.
Step 1: Set up your Amazon environment for Amazon Managed Microsoft AD Active Directory

After you've completed your prerequisite tasks, you create and configure an Amazon VPC in your EC2 instance.

Step 2: Create your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD Active Directory

In this step, you set up Amazon Managed Microsoft AD in Amazon for the first time.

Step 3: Deploy an Amazon EC2 instance to manage your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD Active Directory

Here, you walk through the various post-deployment tasks necessary for client computers to connect to your new domain and set up a new Windows Server system in EC2.

Step 4: Verify that the base test lab is operational

Finally, as an administrator, you verify that you can log in and connect to Amazon Managed Microsoft AD from your Windows Server system in EC2. Once you've successfully tested that the lab is operational, you can continue to add other test lab guide modules.