Amazon Directory Service
AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD, enables your directory-aware workloads and AWS resources to use managed Active Directory in AWS. It provides a fully managed, highly available Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud, with features including trust relationships, domain controllers, LDAPS, and multi-account sharing.
Amazon Directory Service publishes 1 API contract indexed on the APIs.io network: AWS Directory Service API. Tagged areas include Active Directory, Authentication, Directory Services, and Identity and Access Management.
The Amazon Directory Service catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Amazon Directory Service’s developer surface includes pricing, authentication, developer portal, documentation, support, engineering blog, developer console, and 19 more developer resources.
What this lets a business do 1
Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →
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APIs 1
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Amazon Directory Service AWS Directory Service API
The AWS Directory Service API from Amazon Directory Service — 67 operation(s) for aws directory service.
Postman Collections 67
Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.
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Open Collections 68
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
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Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Amazon Directory Service Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Managed Microsoft AD
Fully managed AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory with automatic patching and monitoring
Simple AD
Standalone managed directory powered by Samba 4 for basic AD functionality
AD Connector
Proxy service for connecting AWS applications to existing on-premises AD
Trust Relationships
One-way and two-way trust relationships between AWS and on-premises directories
Multi-Region Replication
Replicate your AWS Managed Microsoft AD across multiple AWS Regions
Directory Sharing
Share a single directory across multiple AWS accounts and VPCs
Semantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Spectral Rules 2
Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.
JSON Schema 26
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
Certificate
JSON SCHEMAClientCertAuthSettings
JSON SCHEMAComputer
JSON SCHEMAConditionalForwarder
JSON SCHEMADirectoryConfigurationStatus
JSON SCHEMADirectoryConnectSettingsDescription
JSON SCHEMADirectoryConnectSettings
JSON SCHEMADirectoryDescription
JSON SCHEMADirectoryLimits
JSON SCHEMADirectoryVpcSettingsDescription
JSON SCHEMADirectoryVpcSettings
JSON SCHEMAEventTopic
JSON SCHEMAIpRouteInfo
JSON SCHEMAIpRoute
JSON SCHEMALDAPSSettingInfo
JSON SCHEMALogSubscription
JSON SCHEMAOSUpdateSettings
JSON SCHEMAOwnerDirectoryDescription
JSON SCHEMARadiusSettings
JSON SCHEMARegionDescription
JSON SCHEMASchemaExtensionInfo
JSON SCHEMASharedDirectory
JSON SCHEMASnapshotLimits
JSON SCHEMASnapshot
JSON SCHEMATag
JSON SCHEMATrust
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JSON Structure 26
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Amazon Directory Service Certificate Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Computer Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Conditional Forwarder Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Directory Description Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Directory Limits Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Event Topic Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Ip Route Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Ip Route Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Ldaps Setting Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Log Subscription Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Os Update Settings Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Radius Settings Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Region Description Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Schema Extension Info Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Shared Directory Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Snapshot Limits Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Snapshot Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Tag Structure
JSON STRUCTUREAmazon Directory Service Trust Structure
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Examples 25
Example request and response payloads for these APIs.
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Security Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Use Cases 5
What developers build with this provider.
Hybrid Identity
Extend on-premises Active Directory into AWS for unified identity management
Workload Authentication
Enable Windows and Linux workloads to join and authenticate against managed AD
AWS Application Integration
Use managed AD for AWS WorkSpaces, RDS, and other AD-aware services
LDAPS Encryption
Secure LDAP communications with certificates for compliance requirements
Disaster Recovery
Use directory snapshots for point-in-time recovery of directory data
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 4
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 5
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
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