For resilience, you should provision multiple AD controllers across different availability zones, but for the purposes of this guide, we are just going to provision one AD controller. Follow the screenshots below to configure AD on DC1.

Log on using the credentials listed in the Instance Details section. You will be prompted to reset your password.

Enable Active Directory Domain Services

Promote Server to Domain Controller

Before you begin this process, enable the local Administrator account on the server and set the password. If you don’t, you will receive this message when you try to promote the domain controller.

Once the Administrator account is enabled and the password set, proceed with the Post-Deployment Configuration.

Before enabling Active Directory Domain Services, you must enable the local Administrator account and log on with that account.

Using your favorite RDP program, connect to DC1 using the public IP address associated with the instance. Add the Active Directory Domain Services role.

After the installation completes, promote this server to a domain controller.

For our purposes, we are going to create a new domain.

Reboot DC1 and move on to the next section.

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