Domain Join Ec2 Instance

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Domain join ec2 instance. Enable automatically joining an active directory domain for. This procedure seamlessly joins a windows ec2 instance to your aws managed microsoft ad directory. You can seamlessly join an ec2 instance to your directory domain when the instance is launched using aws systems manager.

This makes it easier and quicker for you to deploy and manage ec2 instances using the credentials from a single aws managed microsoft ad directory across multiple accounts and vpcs. I went through all of the steps required to setup the iam roles required to have an ec2 instance join a domain. Let us manually configure the static dns on the.

Once you do that you can then log into your instance using a remote desktop protocol rdp client with the credentials from your aws managed microsoft ad user account. Now let s move to part 2 of this blog post. You can seamlessly join an ec2 instance to your directory domain when the instance is launched using aws systems manager.

For more information see seamlessly joining a windows instance to an aws directory service domain in the amazon ec2 user guide for windows instances. Launch amazon ec2 instances and seamlessly domain join to the directory selecting the vpc 2 instead of vpc 1. In addition to amazon ec2 windows instances you can also join certain amazon ec2 linux instances to your aws directory service for microsoft active directory directory.

Today we are making windows on ec2 even more powerful by giving you the ability to seamlessly join ec2 instances to a domain that you have configured with aws directory service. Login to the ubuntu ec2 instance using ssh client or the sessions manager. If you need to perform seamless domain join across multiple aws accounts you can optionally choose to enable directory sharing.

After completing either of these steps you should now be able to join your ec2 instance to the domain. The following linux instance distributions and versions are supported. When i go through the console wizard to launch an ami and have it join a domain it looks good the computer even shows up in my ad users and computers in the computers container but its not actually joined to the domain.