Enable access to the Amazon Web Services Management Console with 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 View directory information. For more information about how to create an access URL, see Creating an access URL.
For more information about how to create and assign IAM roles to your directory members, see Grant users and groups access to Amazon resources.
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Enable 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, select the Application management tab.
Under the Amazon Web Services Management Console section, choose Enable. Console access is now enabled for your directory.
Before users can sign-in to the console with your access URL, you must first add your users to the role. For general information about assigning users to IAM roles, see Assigning users or groups to an existing 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/.
Disable Amazon Web Services Management Console access
To disable console access for your 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, select 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.
Set login session length
By default, users have 1 hour to use their session after successfully signing in to the 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 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, select 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.