Microsoft Workloads on AWS
Author: Syed Ahmad
Syed Ahmad is a Principal Specialist Solutions Architect for Microsoft workloads in AWS. He specializes in Active Directory, AWS Identity services, and AWS Management & Governance. Outside of work, Syed spends time with his family, enjoys playing on his Xbox, mimics great chef recipes at an amateur level, and waiting for another 49ers Super Bowl victory.
Event-driven Active Directory domain join with Amazon EventBridge
In this blog post, I will show you how Amazon EventBridge can automate Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain join and unjoin for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. In a previous blog post, I showed you how AWS Systems Manager Automation can dynamically domain join and unjoin EC2 instances manually. I have worked […]
Simplifying Active Directory domain join with AWS Systems Manager
In this blog post, I will demonstrate a solution for managing the Active Directory domain membership for a dynamic fleet of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Windows instances using AWS Systems Manager Automation. Using Systems Manager Automation, you can dynamically automate domain join and unjoin activities with Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for your Amazon […]
Automate Active Directory domain join activities at scale with AWS Systems Manager
In a previous blog post, I showed how you can use AWS Systems Manager Automation to dynamically automate domain join and unjoin activities with Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) for your Windows instances on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). The previous solution showed you how to manually domain join/unjoin activities against single or multiple […]
Simplifying Active Directory domain join with AWS Systems Manager
A new version of this blog was recently published. The new blog post offers an updated solution to streamline your Active Directory credentials with AWS Secrets Manager. This replaces AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and AWS Lambda function while maintaining the same Automation workflow. In this blog post, I will present a solution for managing […]