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Simple AD quotas - Amazon Directory Service
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Simple AD quotas

Important Notice

Amazon Directory Service Simple AD will no longer be open to new customers starting July 30, 2026. If you would like to use the service, please sign up prior to July 30, 2026. For capabilities similar to Simple AD, explore Amazon Managed Microsoft AD or AD Connector. For more information, see Simple AD availability changes.

Generally, you should not add more than 500 users to a Small Simple AD directory and no more than 5,000 users to a Large Simple AD directory. For more flexible scaling options and additional Active Directory features, consider using Amazon Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition) instead.

The following are the default quotas for Simple AD. Each quota is per Region unless otherwise noted.

Simple AD quotas
Resource Default quota
Simple AD directories 10
Manual snapshots * 5 per Simple AD

* The manual snapshot quota cannot be changed.

Note

You cannot attach a public IP address to your Amazon elastic network interface (ENI).