AWS Makes Significant Progress On Driving MFA Adoption
Security Boulevard, Monday, December 9th, 2024
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is reporting that since last April more than 750,000 root user accounts on its AWS Organizations console for managing access to cloud services have enabled multifactor authentication (MFA).
Arynn Crow, senior manager for user authentication products at AWS. said the ultimate goal is to require all users with root access to have MFA in place by the spring of next year.
Those requirements are part of a larger Secure by Design initiative that includes FIDO2 passkey support added to the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) service last June. Since then, AWS has seen a 100% increase in the adoption of passkeys, noted Crow.