AWS Directory Service(AWS Managed Microsoft AD) adds user and group management using APIs and Console

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What's new at AWS 📢

🔔 AWS Directory Service(AWS Managed Microsoft AD) adds user and group management using APIs and Console

🔔 With this launch customers can perform Create, Read, Update, and Delete operations on users and groups directly through AWS CLI, APIs, and AWS Management Console.

🔔 DevOps engineers, developers, and IT administrators can leverage these new APIs to automate synchronization of users and groups from external identity sources and HR systems, using AWS Lambda functions or AWS SDK supported programming languages.

🔔 It enables customers to respond faster to security alerts, by automating to remove compromised user accounts or from part of security groups.

🔔 This new feature is available with no additional costs.

🔔 What is AWS Directory Service Data:
🌲 It is an extension or API reference of Directory service
🌲 It helps to automate the actions of create, read, update, and delete users, groups, and memberships from your AWS Managed Microsoft AD
🌲 Also can manage from the AWS Management Console itself without deploying dedicated management instances(Jump/NAT instances).

📌 Explore more about Directory Store API: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/directoryservice/latest/admin-guide/ms_ad_manage_users_groups.html