Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Sameer Palande

Gaurang Pankaj Mehta

Krithi Rai

Guruprakash Bangalore Rao

Shon Kiran Shah

Chirag Pravin Pandya

Lawrence Hun-Gi Aung

Shuo Wang

Neelam Satish Agrawal

Deepak Suryanarayanan

Colin Harrison Brace

Thomas Christopher Rizzo

Praerit Garg

Sivaprasad Venkata Padisetty

Vivek Lakshmanan

Manivannan Sundaram

Malcolm Russell Ah Kun

Ajit Nagendra Padukone

Manoj Krishna Ghosh

Martin Chen Mao

Lekshmi Unnikrishnan

Bradley Scott Murphy

Erik Jonathon Tellvik

Salman Aftab Paracha

Raghavendra Reddy Madakkagari

Erik Jonathan Telvik

A customer submits a request to a virtual computer system service to launch a virtual machine instance and to join this instance to a managed directory. The service may obtain, from the customer, a domain name and Internet Protocol addresses for the selected directory, which is then stored within a systems management server. When launched, the instance may initiate an agent, which may communicate with the systems management server to obtain the configuration information. The agent may use this configuration information to establish a communications channel with the managed directory and create a temporary set of computer credentials that may be used to verify that the customer is authorized to join the virtual machine instance to the managed directory. If the credentials are valid, the managed directory may generate a computer account within the managed directory, which may be used to join the virtual machine instance to the managed directory.

Automatic domain join for virtual machine instances

Features are disclosed for facilitating remote management of network directories of organizations by a directory management system. The network directories may change over time, experiencing growth in size and number of current connections, increased latency, reduced performance, and the like. The network directories may also shrink over time, experience fewer connections, etc. Organizations can define scaling policies by which the directory management system can automatically respond to the occurrence of various events, such as changes in the size or usage of the organizations' network directories, by scaling resources associated with the directories. The directory management system can perform various scaling actions on-demand or without requiring additional action by the organizations, thereby reducing the time and effort required by the organizations to monitor their own directories and implement (or request implementation of) changes.

Scaling of remote network directory management resources

A user transmits a request to an authentication service to access a managed directory. The request may include a first set of credentials usable by a managed directory service to authenticate the user. As a result of the first set of credentials being valid, the authentication service may prompt the user to provide a multi-factor authentication code, which may be used by an authentication server to further authenticate the user and enable the user to access the managed directory. The authentication service subsequently provides the multi-factor authentication code to the authentication server for validation. If the multi-factor authentication code is valid, the authentication service may enable the user to access the managed directory through an encrypted communications session.

Multi-factor authentication for managed directories

Techniques for connecting computer system entities to remote computer system resources are described herein. A computer system entity that requests access to a remote computer system resource has that request fulfilled by a managed directory service which receives the request and connects the computer system entity to the remote computer system resource. While connected, the managed directory service receives commands to perform operations on the remote computer system resource and, if the computer system entity is authorized to perform the operations on the remote computer system resource, the managed directory service performs the operation on the remote computer system resource.

Managed directory service

Techniques for connecting computer system entities to remotely extended local computer system resources are described herein. A computer system entity that requests access to a local computer system resource has that request fulfilled by a managed directory service which receives the request and connects the computer system entity to the local computer system resource. While connected, the managed directory service extends the local computer system resource to a corresponding extended remote computer system resource, receives commands to perform operations on the local or extended remote computer system resources and, if the computer system entity is authorized to perform the operations on the appropriate computer system resource, the managed directory service performs the operations on the appropriate computer system resource.

Managed directory service with extension

A user, group, and device management and authentication system allows administrators to manage one or more directories with devices that are not associated with a domain of the one or more directories via a set of APIs. The system also allows applications and services that do not have direct access to a list of directory users to access the one or more directories. The user, group, and device management and authentication system may be an add-on system that works in conjunction with a centrally-managed directory service to provide such functionality. For example, the system may generate an access token associated with a particular directory that can be used by a service accessed by an administrator to call an API provided by the system. The API call may be translated into a directory-specific API call that can be used to perform an action in the particular directory.

Management and authentication in hosted directory service

Techniques for connecting computer system entities to local computer system resources are described herein. A computer system entity that requests access to a local computer system resource has that request fulfilled by a managed directory service, which receives the request and connects the computer system entity to the local computer system resource. While connected, the managed directory service receives commands to perform operations on the local computer system resource and, if the computer system entity is authorized to perform the operations on the local computer system resource, the managed directory service performs the operations on the local computer system resource.

Managed directory service connection

A virtual computing environment service may receive a request from a customer to provision a virtual computing environment and join the virtual computing environment to a managed directory. The virtual computing environment service may provision the virtual computing environment and uses a set of administrator credentials from the customer and a set of credentials corresponding to the environment to access the managed directory and request joining of the environment to the managed directory. In response, the managed directory may create a computer account corresponding to the environment and which enables the environment to be used to access the managed directory. The virtual computing environment service may then enable the customer to specify one or more users that may utilize the virtual computing environment to access the managed directory.

Domain join and managed directory support for virtual computing environments

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