A decade of enterprise identity in the cloud with AWS Managed Microsoft AD

Ten years ago, we launched AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory , a fully managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. In that original announcement, Jeff Barr described a straightforward promise: “You will spend less time administering and more time working on your applications and your business.” A decade later, AWS Managed Microsoft AD has become the identity backbone for thousands of enterprises worldwide. What started as a way to run directory-aware workloads in the