Posted On: May 5, 2017
HAQM Chime has added two new capabilities to simplify end user management. First, you can now claim your corporate domain to use with HAQM Chime, which means that any user that signs up for HAQM Chime using an email address in your corporate domain is automatically added to your HAQM Chime account. Second, you can now configure HAQM Chime to use your Microsoft Active Directory (AD) for user management and authentication. This allows you to manage your users individually or in groups, easily assign HAQM Chime subscriptions to specific users or groups in your organization, and to apply the password policies you’ve already set to HAQM Chime. End users don’t need to manually create an HAQM Chime account, and they can log in using their existing corporate credentials.
When you claim your domain, all HAQM Chime users using an email address in your domain become part of your HAQM Chime account. This allows you to manage HAQM Chime users in your organization centrally using the HAQM Chime console. You can assign and change service subscriptions for each user, and suspend users from your account. To claim your domain, your HAQM Chime account will automatically switch from a team account to an enterprise account. With an HAQM Chime team account, you can include users from any email domain; with an enterprise account, you have more control over users and data, and all HAQM Chime users with email addresses in your domain become managed. You can claim your domain by following the steps laid out in Create an Enterprise Account.
To use Microsoft AD with HAQM Chime, you’ll first need to claim your domain. There are two ways you can use Microsoft AD to manage your users. First, you can connect to your on-premises Microsoft AD using the AWS AD Connector. The AD Connector allows you to establish a trusted relationship between your AD and AWS. Second, you can use AWS Microsoft AD, a managed service built on Microsoft AD that runs on AWS. You can use the HAQM Chime console to configure Microsoft AD integration, and to assign HAQM Chime Plus or Pro subscriptions to directory groups. To learn more about configuring HAQM Chime to use AD, please see Add Your Active Directory.
Claim your domain, and the ability to use Microsoft AD with your HAQM Chime account is available for all HAQM Chime customers starting today. There are no charges to use these features, and there is no change to the per user, per month HAQM Chime pricing. Because an HAQM Chime enterprise account will automatically add all users in the domain you claim, you cannot have any users with the free HAQM Chime Basic plan registered with an email address using your domain. For more information, please see HAQM Chime Pricing . The use of AWS Directory Services is not included in HAQM Chime pricing, and may incur additional charges. For more information, please see AWS Directory Services Pricing .
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