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Amazon Directory Service and Amazon Organizations

Amazon Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, or Amazon Managed Microsoft AD, lets you run Microsoft Active Directory (AD) as a managed service. Amazon Directory Service makes it easy to set up and run directories in the Amazon Cloud or connect your Amazon resources with an existing on-premises Microsoft Active Directory. Amazon Managed Microsoft AD also integrates tightly with Amazon Organizations to allow seamless directory sharing across multiple Amazon Web Services accounts and any VPC in a Region. For more information, see the Amazon Directory Service Administration Guide.

Use the following information to help you integrate Amazon Directory Service with Amazon Organizations.

Enabling trusted access with Amazon Directory Service

For information about the permissions needed to enable trusted access, see Permissions required to enable trusted access.

You can enable trusted access using either the Amazon Directory Service console or the Amazon Organizations console.

Important

We strongly recommend that whenever possible, you use the Amazon Directory Service console or tools to enable integration with Organizations. This lets Amazon Directory Service perform any configuration that it requires, such as creating resources needed by the service. Proceed with these steps only if you can’t enable integration using the tools provided by Amazon Directory Service. For more information, see this note.

If you enable trusted access by using the Amazon Directory Service console or tools then you don’t need to complete these steps.

To enable trusted access using the Amazon Directory Service console

To share a directory, which automatically enables trusted access, see Share Your Directory in the Amazon Directory Service Administration Guide. For step-by-step instructions, see Tutorial: Sharing Your Amazon Managed Microsoft AD Directory.

You can enable trusted access by using the Amazon Organizations console.

Amazon Web Services Management Console
To enable trusted service access using the Organizations console

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Services.

  3. Choose Amazon Directory Service in the list of services.

  4. Choose Enable trusted access.

  5. In the Enable trusted access for Amazon Directory Service dialog box, type enable to confirm it, and then choose Enable trusted access.

  6. If you are the administrator of only Amazon Organizations, tell the administrator of Amazon Directory Service that they can now enable that service using its console to work with Amazon Organizations.

Disabling trusted access with Amazon Directory Service

For information about the permissions needed to disable trusted access, see Permissions required to disable trusted access.

If you disable trusted access using Amazon Organizations while you are using Amazon Directory Service, all previously shared directories continue to operate as normal. However, you can no longer share new directories within the organization until you enable trusted access again.

You can disable trusted access using only the Organizations tools.

You can disable trusted access by using the Amazon Organizations console.

Amazon Web Services Management Console
To disable trusted service access using the Organizations console

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Organizations console. You must sign in as an IAM user, assume an IAM role, or sign in as the root user (not recommended) in the organization’s management account.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Services.

  3. Choose Amazon Directory Service in the list of services.

  4. Choose Disable trusted access.

  5. In the Disable trusted access for Amazon Directory Service dialog box, type disable to confirm it, and then choose Disable trusted access.

  6. If you are the administrator of only Amazon Organizations, tell the administrator of Amazon Directory Service that they can now disable that service using its console or tools from working with Amazon Organizations.