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

In late 2022, AWS launched support for customers to register up to eight MFA devices per account root user or per IAM user in AWS, creating additional flexibility and resiliency for your MFA strategy.

AWS Identity and Access Management is helping businesses boost multi-factor authentication (MFA) adoption and organizational security by introducing a centrally managed security feature.

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 ...

Amazon Web Services hit a major multi-factor authentication milestone, achieving 100 percent MFA enforcement for root users across all types of AWS accounts.… AWS Chief Information Security ...

AWS plans to expand the requirement for MFA to additional scenarios, including standalone accounts, those outside an organization in AWS organizations, also eventually being required to use MFA as ...

Based on this early success, AWS will now be expanding MFA requirements to member accounts in AWS organisations from Spring 2025.