AWS Directory Service pricing

With AWS Directory Service, you pay only for the type and size of the managed directory that you use. There is no up-front commitment and no minimum fee. You can delete your managed directory at any time.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory is offered in two editions to help you create a managed Active Directory that meets your organization’s needs. Both Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition can be used as your organization’s primary directory to manage users, devices, and computers. You also can use both editions to create resource forests and extend your on-premises AD to the AWS Cloud. Resource forests use a trust relationship with your on-premises AD to enable you to access AWS applications and resources with your on-premises AD credentials. In a resource forest model, users are managed in your on-premises AD and the resource forest is used to manage your AWS resources. Both editions also support the creation of additional domain controllers to improve the redundancy and performance of your managed directory.

AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Standard Edition) is optimized to be a primary directory for small and midsize businesses with up to 5,000 employees. It provides you enough storage capacity to support up to 30,000* directory objects, such as users, groups, and computers.

AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Enterprise Edition) is designed to support enterprise organizations with up to 500,000* directory objects.

AWS Managed Microsoft AD (Hybrid Edition) is designed to support customers with up to 500,000* directory objects. It enables you to extend your existing AD domain(s) into AWS, whether it's hosted on-premises or in the cloud, making AWS Managed Microsoft AD domain controllers part of your existing AD forest.

*Upper limits are approximations. Your directory may support more or less directory objects
depending on the size of your directory objects and the behaviour and performance needs of your applications.

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory allows you to use a directory in one account and share it with multiple accounts and VPCs. There is an hourly sharing charge for each additional account to which you share a directory. There is no sharing charge for additional VPCs to which you share a directory, or for the account in which you install the directory. Enterprise Edition sharing and Standard Edition sharing charges for different regions are listed in pricing table below.

The prices shown in the following table are based on the region in which your managed directory is running. For each AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory managed directory, AWS creates the minimum two domain controllers automatically to provide high availability. You can scale out your managed directory by creating additional domain controllers to improve your managed directory performance and availability.

Example 1: A single managed directory with the default two domain controllers (without shared directory)

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory €316.00

24 hours x 30 days = 720 hours per domain controller

2 domain controllers per managed directory (the minimum)

720 hours x 2 total domain controllers = 1,440 total domain controller hours

1,440 total hours x €0.20 per domain controller hour = €316.00

Note that although the pricing table shown on this page lists the hourly cost per managed directory (€0.4383 per hour), your AWS bill lists each domain controller as an individual line item. Your bill shows two domain controllers, each for €0.2191 per hour, totalling €158.00 each.

In the future, you will be billed at the hourly rate per managed directory plus any additional domain controllers.

Summary of charges

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (Enterprise Edition) charge €316.00
24 hours x 30 days = 720 hours per domain controller
2 domain controllers per managed directory (the minimum)
720 hours x 2 total domain controllers = 1,440 total domain controller hours
1,440 total hours x €0.2191 per domain controller hour = €316.00
Note that although the pricing table shown on this page lists the hourly cost per managed directory (€0.4383 per hour), your AWS bill lists each domain controller as an individual line item. Your bill shows two domain controllers, each for €0.2191 per hour, totalling €158.00 each.
In the future, you will be billed at the hourly rate per managed directory plus any additional domain controllers.

Example 2: A single managed directory with the default two domain controllers and shared with 3 additional accounts

1. Domain controller charges:                                                                                   €316.00

24 hours x 30 days = 720 hours per domain controller

2 domain controllers per managed directory (the minimum)

720 hours x 2 total domain controllers = 1,440 total domain controller hours

1,440 total hours x €0.2191 per domain controller hour = €316.00

2. Shared managed directory charge:                                                                     €142.00

24 hours x 30 days = 720 hours per domain shared directory

3 accounts share 1 directory

720 hours x 3 accounts x 1 shared directory = 2,160 total shared directory hours

2,160 total hours x €0.0657 per shared directory hour = €142.00

Note that although the pricing table shown on this page lists the hourly cost per managed directory (€0.4383 per hour), your AWS bill lists each domain controller as an individual line item. Your bill shows two domain controllers, each for €0.2191 per hour, totalling €158.00 each.

In the future, you will be billed at the hourly rate per managed directory plus any additional domain controllers.

Example 3: A single managed directory with one additional domain controller (without shared directory)

Summary of charges

AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory charge €432.00
24 hours x 30 days = 720 hours per domain controller
2 domain controllers per managed directory (the minimum) + 1 additional domain controller = 3 total domain controllers
720 hours x 3 total domain controllers = 2,160 total domain controller hours
2,160 total hours * €0.20 per domain controller hour = €432.00
Again, note that although the pricing table on this page lists the hourly cost per managed directory (€0.40 per hour), your AWS bill lists each domain controller as an individual line item. Your bill shows three domain controllers, each for €0.20 per hour, totalling €144.00 each.
In the future, you will be billed at the hourly rate per managed directory plus any additional domain controllers.