How to Connect Your On-Premises Active Directory to AWS Using AD Connector

• AD Connector is designed to give you an easy way to establish a trusted relationship between your Active Directory and AWS.

• When AD Connector is configured, the trust allows you to:

  • Sign in to AWS applications such as Amazon WorkSpaces, Amazon WorkDocs, and Amazon WorkMail by using your Active Directory credentials.

  • Seamlessly join Windows instances to your Active Directory domain either through the Amazon EC2 launch wizard or programmatically through the EC2 Simple System Manager (SSM) API.

  • Provide federated sign-in to the AWS Management Console by mapping Active Directory identities to AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles.