Effective DevOps with AWS - Second Edition

Enabling MFA on the root account

In order to avoid any kind of issues, the first thing we need to do once we sign up is enable MFA. In case you haven't seen or heard of this before, MFA is a security system that requires more than one method of authentication from independent categories of credentials. These are used to verify the user's identity in order to log in. In practice, once enabled, you will need the password previously set when you signed up in order to login. However, you will also need another code provided from a different source. That second source can be provided through a physical device such as the SafeNet IDProve, which is available at http://amzn.to/2u4K1rR, through an SMS on your phone, or through an application installed ...