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AWS root IAM user

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AWS root IAM user

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- [Instructor] Now, as I mentioned in the previous movie, there is only one AWS root user account per Amazon account, so one email per AWS account is the root user. This is the person who set up the account, they get the root credentials. And this is similar to domain administrator for an internal network. A very important best practice is that no one should be logging in with the root account in a production environment and the AWS root account should always use multi-factor authentication. Now, let's look at working with different user accounts and logging in in the console. And actually before we do that I'm going to refer you to this Amazon documentation that describes a list of tasks that require root user access and it's a pretty small list and you can see it here. One of the objections I get typically from DevOps people is that they have to use root in order to do their daily job and I will push back on that and refer them to this list and say these actions are the ones that…

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