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Amazon Directory Service overview

Amazon Directory Service overview

- [Instructor] In this lecture, we will discuss AWS Directory Service and what features it can offer to benefit organizations. At the end of this lecture, you will be able to understand AWS Directory Service at the high level, determine which AWS Directory Service option to choose from that best meets your needs, and identify what other AWS services it can integrate with. Without further ado, let's get started. As more organizations scale up their data center to the cloud, extending their existing Active Directory identities from on-premises to AWS can save time and effort from an operational standpoint. Having that capability can be efficient as they don't have to recreate corporate credentials to support their AD-dependent workloads from scratch. Or, if they want to use AWS Solutions with their AD credentials, they'll need a way to connect those solutions. AWS Directory Service provides multiple directory options for organizations who want to expand their existing Lightweight…

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