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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide

You're reading from   AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Exam Guide Build your cloud computing knowledge and build your skills as an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C01)

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801075930
Length 630 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rajesh Daswani Rajesh Daswani
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Cloud Concepts
2. Chapter 1: What Is Cloud Computing? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Introduction to AWS and the Global Infrastructure 4. Chapter 3: Exploring AWS Accounts, Multi-Account Strategy, and AWS Organizations 5. Section 2: AWS Technologies
6. Chapter 4: Identity and Access Management 7. Chapter 5: Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) 8. Chapter 6: AWS Networking Services – VPCs, Route53, and CloudFront 9. Chapter 7: AWS Compute Services 10. Chapter 8: AWS Database Services 11. Chapter 9: High Availability and Elasticity on AWS 12. Chapter 10: Application Integration Services 13. Chapter 11: Analytics on AWS 14. Chapter 12: Automation and Deployment on AWS 15. Chapter 13: Management and Governance on AWS 16. Section 3: AWS Security
17. Chapter 14: Implementing Security in AWS 18. Section 4: Billing and Pricing
19. Chapter 15: Billing and Pricing 20. Chapter 16: Mock Tests 21. Answers 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

The root user account and implementing Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

One of the first things you want to do is configure MFA for your root user account. Normally, when you log in to an AWS account, you simply provide a username and password. You are probably aware that you must choose a highly complex password – one that has lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols, and must be randomly generated rather than dictionary words that can be guessed easily.

However, a username and password combination alone is not sufficient in this age of malware attacks, hacking, and brute force attacks. MFA is a mechanism where you are prompted to verify your identity using more than one set of credentials. Instead of just having two passwords, however, MFA uses two separate secrets to verify your identity – something you know and something you have. So, for example, something you know would be your username and password, and something you have would be a one-time...

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