# AWS Managed Microsoft AD test lab tutorials
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This section provides a series of guided tutorials to help you establish a test lab environment in AWS where you can experiment with AWS Managed Microsoft AD.

**Topics**
+ [Tutorial: Setting up your base AWS Managed Microsoft AD test lab in AWS](ms_ad_tutorial_test_lab_base.md)
+ [Tutorial: Creating a trust from AWS Managed Microsoft AD to a self-managed Active Directory installation on Amazon EC2](ms_ad_tutorial_test_lab_trust.md)

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Directory Service. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query directoryservice` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).