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Is it Possible to have Active Directory On AWS without On-Premise Active Directory?<br />
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I wanted to join my on-premise users desktop/laptop to Active Directory On AWS .<br />
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Basically, i do not want to have on-premise Active Directory.
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Is it Possible to have Active Directory On AWS without On-Premise Active Directory?

I wanted to join my on-premise users desktop/laptop to Active Directory On AWS .

Basically, i do not want to have on-premise Active Directory.

Active Directory on AWS Instance to join Local On Premise desktops/laptops

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.

Active Directory

Amazon Web Services (AWS), is a collection of remote computing services, also called web services, that make up a cloud-computing platform  operated from 11 geographical regions across the world. The most central and well-known of these services include Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, also known as "EC2", and Amazon Simple Storage Service, also known as "S3". Other services include Elastic MapReduce (EMR), Route 53 (a DNS web service),  provides a highly available and scalable Domain Name System (DNS) web service, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), storage, database, deployment and application services.