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Microsoft Entra Domain Services pricing

Manage your domain controllers in the cloud

Microsoft Entra Domain Services provides scalable, high-performance, managed domain services such as domain-join, LDAP, Kerberos, Windows Integrated authentication, and group policy. With the click of a button, administrators can enable managed domain services for virtual machines and directory-aware applications deployed in Azure Infrastructure Services. By maintaining compatibility with Windows Server Active Directory, Microsoft Entra Domain Services allows administrators to easily migrate legacy on-premises applications to the cloud and to centralize management of all applications and all identities in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD).

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Microsoft Entra Domain Services usage is charged per hour, based on the SKU selected by the tenant owner. Note that a standard load balancer and IP will be deployed to run Microsoft Entra Domain Services. Learn more about load balancer pricing.

Not available Standard Enterprise Premium
AAD DS Core Service
Suggested Auth Load (peak, per hour)1 0 to 3,000 3,000 to 10,000 10,000 to 70,000
Suggested Object Count2 0 to 25,000 25,000 to 100,000 100,000 to 500,000
Backup Frequency Every 5 Days Every 3 Days Daily3
Instances
Managed domain4 $- $- $-
Features
Replicas Not available Available Available
Extra sync options5 Not available Available Available

1 Transactions are given as guidelines for selecting SKU and are not SLA. Directory performance may vary depending on the needs of your applications and amount of authentication requests.

2 Object count is given as a guideline for selecting SKU and not limited in the product.

3 Daily backups will be retained 7 days, with every 3rd backup being retained 30 days.

4 Each instance consists of 2 domain controllers for high availability, spread across 2 availability zones (if available in region).

5 Includes Custom attributes and Cloud-only sync.

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