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Hands-on learning: Enable MFA

Hands-on learning: Enable MFA

From the course: AWS Certified Data Engineer Associate (DEA-C01) Cert Prep

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Hands-on learning: Enable MFA

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- In this lesson, we're going to add multi-factor authentication to our own individual user account. So let's head over to AWS. I'm in the identity and access management console, and as you can see, we've already got a couple of security recommendations. It's saying that we should add MFA for the root user and for ourselves. Now what we're going to do in this lesson is add MFA for our own user accounts. Now the process is very similar but slightly different for the root user. I've actually added a link to an AWS article that you can follow if you want to log out and log back in as root and add MFA for root. So that's something you could potentially do after this lesson. Now it's important to note that with IAM, we never need to select a region. So that's something that pops up in exam questions quite a lot, where you get some kind of scenario where users are being added to some other geographical area in the world and you need to know what to do with their accounts and how to set up…

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