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PROS

Manageability is highly appreciated, with Activate Connect making it easier to assign information and manage resources in the network.
The ease of use is a standout feature, requiring minimal legwork from the team for backend management.
AWS Directory Service offers great redundancy and high availability, ensuring operations run smoothly without Downtime.
Security is emphasized through features like two-step authentication and specific access controls.
Integration with other tools through single sign-on enhances usability, allowing seamless access to multiple applications.

CONS

AWS Directory Service could improve integration with other business solutions.
Schema uploading during user migration from on-premises to cloud infrastructure presents challenges.
Configuration is required to monitor memory and storage with CloudWatch, leading to potential errors.
There is no option for on-premises Cisco AWS Directory Service integration, requiring manual configuration.
Accessing data needs improvement.
 

AWS Directory Service Pros review quotes

reviewer1308501 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Datacenter Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Mar 30, 2020
I like the manageability. Activate Connect makes it easier to assign information and to manage the resources in the network.
reviewer939417 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Auditor & Compliance Officer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Apr 2, 2020
The most valuable feature is ease of use.
reviewer1165992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Powershell IT Admin Cert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 2, 2021
We like the fact that it's got such great redundancy.
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reviewer1737459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer - (Remote) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 7, 2021
The most valuable feature is that because it's all in the cloud, you don't need to manage the infrastructure.
BN
Head of IT/Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Crown Interactive Limited
Dec 28, 2021
AWS has eliminated the downtime we waste when our on-premises resources go down.
UB
Associate Director - Technical at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jan 4, 2022
AWS handles everything on the backend requiring minimal legwork from our team. We only require a dedicated database administrator while depending on Amazon for RDS.
Akash Saud - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Administrator at MBI Solutions, LLC
Apr 5, 2022
Provides good performance and availability.
VamsiMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Huber
Apr 8, 2022
AWS Directory Service is secure.
José Luis  Pérez - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager at Tecnides
Aug 3, 2022
The support is very good. I would rate the technical support as a nine out of ten.
OD
Bigdata / Hadoop Admin
Nov 4, 2022
Two-step authentication is very useful and important.
 

AWS Directory Service Cons review quotes

reviewer1308501 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Datacenter Engineer at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Mar 30, 2020
The group policy can be improved.
reviewer939417 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Auditor & Compliance Officer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
Apr 2, 2020
I would like to see better integration with other business solutions.
reviewer1165992 - PeerSpot reviewer
Powershell IT Admin Cert at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Nov 2, 2021
AWS could improve the number of regions. Azure has passed them. The ned more consistency, as far as the Northeast is concerned.
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reviewer1737459 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Infrastructure Reliability Engineer - (Remote) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Dec 7, 2021
We had a problem with the schema uploading and setting up the directory when we are migrating our users from on-premises to cloud infrastructure.
BN
Head of IT/Cloud Infrastructure Architect at Crown Interactive Limited
Dec 28, 2021
To get CloudWatch to monitor your memory and storage, you have to do some configuration within your server, which sometimes results in errors.
UB
Associate Director - Technical at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Jan 4, 2022
Our only complaint is that you cannot integrate your Exchange server. Or, if you are planning to install an Exchange server on your Amazon EC2 instance, then you need to configure Active Directory on EC2 instance. We would like for this limitation to be lifted.
Akash Saud - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Administrator at MBI Solutions, LLC
Apr 5, 2022
The solution lacks certain features.
VamsiMohan - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO at Huber
Apr 8, 2022
The AWS Directory Service should be easier to integrate.
José Luis  Pérez - PeerSpot reviewer
Delivery Manager at Tecnides
Aug 3, 2022
Some of the security protocols are difficult to understand.
OD
Bigdata / Hadoop Admin
Nov 4, 2022
I would like to grant partial access to a table contained in a database without having to provide full access to the whole database.