Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced FIDO2 passkeys as a new method for multi-factor authentication (MFA) to enhance account security and usability. Additionally, as announced last October, the ...

AWS has added support for FIDO2 passkeys, an authentication method under the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) framework, for multifactor authentication — and will soon make MFA mandatory for signing in to ...

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Amazon will require all privileged AWS (Amazon Web Services) accounts to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) for stronger protection against account hijacks leading to data breaches, starting in mid ...

Unlock the full InfoQ experience by logging in! Stay updated with your favorite authors and topics, engage with content, and download exclusive resources. Vivek Yadav, an engineering manager from ...

Amazon has long recommended that you use your AWS root account as seldom as possible, using instead an IAM account. The main reason for this recommendation is of course, that the root account is ...

The many announcements made at AWS Re:Invent this year reflect a growing focus on hybrid cloud computing, security, and compliance. Enterprises are rapidly accelerating the pace at which they’re ...

For many cloud apps, administrators are given a super admin account credential, also known as the root account, which allows wide-reaching administrative access to the account. These super admin ...

Enterprises are rapidly accelerating the pace at which they’re moving workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) for greater cost, scale and speed advantages. And while AWS leads all others as the ...