Working with Active Directory with RDS for SQL Server

You can join an RDS for SQL Server DB instance to a Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain. Your AD domain can be hosted on AWS Managed AD within AWS, or on a Self Managed AD in a location of your choice, including your corporate data centers, on AWS EC2, or with other cloud providers.

You can authenticate domain users using NTLM authentication with Self Managed Active Directory. You can use Kerberos and NTLM authentication with AWS Managed Active Directory.

In the following sections, you can find information about working with Self Managed Active Directory and AWS Managed Active Directory for Microsoft SQL Server on Amazon RDS.