Setting Up 2FA

Learn how to set up 2FA to protect your AWS account.

In this lesson, you’ll learn to set up two-factor authentication (2FA, also sometimes called multi-factor Authentication [MFA]) for the root account. This is a very important step to secure your AWS account and prevent unauthorized access.

Please note that you need a smartphone to set up 2FA in the way we will do in this lesson. We’ll use the most common way of setting up 2FA by using a Virtual MFA device.

Virtual MFA devices are apps that you ...