Join an Amazon EC2 Linux instance to your Simple AD Active Directory - Amazon Directory Service
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Join an Amazon EC2 Linux instance to your Simple AD Active Directory

You can launch and join an Amazon EC2 Linux instance to your Simple AD in the Amazon Web Services Management Console. You can also manually join EC2 Linux instance to your Simple AD.

The following Linux instance distributions and versions are supported:

  • Amazon Linux AMI 2018.03.0

  • Amazon Linux 2 (64-bit x86)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (HVM) (64-bit x86)

  • Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS & Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS

  • CentOS 7 x86-64

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1

Note

Distributions prior to Ubuntu 14 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 do not support the seamless domain join feature.

Ways to domain join a EC2 Linux instance: