AWS Series - Identity Access Management - IAM - Part 2 - MFA

 Hello All

Welcome back to AWS - Series IAM part 2 , In this blog we are going to see , what is AWS multi Factor Authentication, and How do we enable it from IAM service for users 

What is AWS MFA?

AWS multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practice that requires a second authentication factor in addition to user name and password sign-in credentials. 

How to enable the MFA for individual users from IAM services 

Double click the user and go the menu Security Credential 

Give the name for the MFA Device Name and select Authenticator  App

Click on Show QR Code on Set up device page

scan the QR Code using google or Microsoft authenticator and enter the MFA code 1 and 2 and click Add MFA

MFA added to the user RAVI

How to validate

Login with IAM user along with 12 digit Account ID

Use your login credential

In the next screen  it will ask for MFA to enter

Enter the Code from the authenticator

Finally,  the user RAVI can able to AWS console with MFA enabled 

Happy learning 😃