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IAM authentication and multi-factor authentication (MFA)

IAM authentication and multi-factor authentication (MFA)

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IAM authentication and multi-factor authentication (MFA)

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- [Instructor] In this lesson, you'll learn about the IAM authentication methods and multifactor authentication. So firstly, let's look at the different authentication methods available within AWS IAM. So here we have a user account called John. John wants to access AWS, and so he logs into the console using a username and a password. Optionally, you can supply a MFA token, a multi-factor authentication token. We'll talk about that a bit more in a moment. And this provides access to the management console. So username and password is used to access the management console. John is authenticated and can then be authorized to perform operations through the console. On the other hand, John might want to use the CLI or the API. For this, we can use what are called access keys. These com are composed of an access key ID and a secret access key. And you can think of this also as like a username and password, and it's called long-term credentials. You create this and it's stored in your…

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