Activate MFA for your root user - Amazon Account Management
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Activate MFA for your root user

We strongly recommend that you activate MFA for your root user. MFA dramatically lowers the risk of someone accessing your account without your authorization.

  1. Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console as the account owner by choosing Root user and entering your Amazon Web Services account email address. On the next page, enter your password.

    For help signing in using your root user, see Sign in to the Amazon Web Services Management Console as the root user in the Amazon Sign-In User Guide.

  2. Turn on MFA for your root user.

    For instructions, see Enable a virtual MFA device for your Amazon Web Services account root user (console) in the IAM User Guide.