Effective DevOps with AWS

Enabling multi-factor authentication on the root account

In order to avoid any kind of issues, the first thing we need to do once we sign up is to 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 to verify the user's identity to log in. In practice, once enabled, in order to log into your root account, you will need the password previously set when you signed up but also another code provided from a different source. That second source can be provided through a physical device such as the SafeNet IDProve available on Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/2u4K1rR), an SMS on your phone, or an application installed on your ...