# Working with Active Directory with RDS for Db2
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You can join an RDS for Db2 DB instance to a Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domain. Your AD domain can be hosted on AWS Managed AD within AWS, or on a self-managed AD in a location of your choice, including your corporate data centers, on AWS EC2, or with other cloud providers.

You can authenticate domain users using Kerberos authentication with self-managed Active Directory and AWS Managed Microsoft AD.

In the following sections, you can find information about working with self-managed Active Directory and AWS Managed Active Directory for Db2 on Amazon RDS.

**Topics**
+ [Working with self-managed Active Directory with an RDS for Db2 DB instance](db2-self-managed-active-directory.md)
+ [Working with AWS Managed Active Directory with RDS for Db2](db2-managed-active-directory.md)