Amazon brings Microsoft users into AWS with Active Directory service

Amazon has launched an AWS Directory Service for Active Directory, a fully managed implementation of Microsoft's authentication and user management service.

Using Active Directory in Amazon's cloud will enable companies to bring applications including SQL Server, SharePoint and custom applications built with .NET onto AWS. That's useful for businesses trying to move into the cloud from an on-premises deployment of Microsoft's software. 

When companies start using the service, it creates a pair of domain controllers connected to a user's virtual private cloud running Windows Server 2012 R2. Each domain controller runs in a different availability zone of a user's choosing inside a single region, and Amazon will handle the nuts-and-bolts of managing things like host monitoring, data replication and snapshots.

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