Deciding Which Offering Is Right for Your Organization

With several different options available for AD in AWS, it can sometimes be confusing as to which of the service offerings to use. In this section, you will see a set of charts along with service quotas that should help clarify when the different versions of AD are the correct choice for your particular scenario.

As you have gone through this chapter, you have learned about three different major offerings that AWS provides you to connect your resources to a directory either based in the AWS cloud or relayed to it. While each of these provides the same type of end functionality, such as providing a domain name to an EC2 instance and allowing a user to log in to that instance with their domain-based username and password, the number of features and functionality that the three services offer can vary. Table 16.1 presents a chart that will help you quickly grasp some of the major features (or features lacking) of the services discussed...