Home icon

Active Directory Domain Services integration with Amazon Route 53

Networking & Content Delivery Blog



This article provides best practices for integrating Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) with Amazon Route 53 for DNS resolution and registration across domain-joined resources.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Challenges with traditional approaches like using DHCP options sets targeting Windows DNS servers directly
  • Using Route 53 Resolver endpoints and rules to integrate AD DS DNS with Route 53 private hosted zones
  • Step-by-step guide to configure outbound endpoints, forwarding rules, and conditional forwarders for hybrid DNS resolution
  • Disabling autodefined reverse DNS resolution on VPCs
  • Benefits of this approach, including scalability, availability, and reduced operational overhead


Go to article

The AWS News Feed is currently looking for gold sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.

Related articles

Aug 19
2024
Migrating your multi-account DNS environment to Amazon Route 53 Profiles
Jul 24
2024
DNS best practices for Amazon Route 53
Jul 23
2024
Simplifying Active Directory domain join with AWS Systems Manager
Nov 21
2025
Amazon Route 53 DNS service adds support for IPv6 API service endpoint

The AWS News Feed is currently looking for silver sponsors. If you want to support the AWS community and reach a large audience of AWS professionals, consider sponsoring the AWS News Feed.