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Multi-factor authentication

Multi-factor authentication - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Multi-factor authentication

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- [Instructor] We talked before about the recommendation for enabling MFA on your root account. In fact, from my dashboard, I can see I have a four out of five on my security status because I haven't done that. And I can't do that now because I'm not logged in as the root account. I can enable it on my account under the security credentials under the dropdown for my account on the top right. I can do it for other users under the users tab. So I'm going to select on the boothadmin user and under the security credentials tab, we'll see the assigned MFA device. It's not assigned. So to assign it, I can click Manage. And from here, I have three options. I can learn more about these from this link right here, this AWS multifactor authentication link, but these three options give you the most common ones. So you have a virtual MFA device, which is usually a app that you install on your phone or computer. The U2F security…

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