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Severity: HighMedium

Description: This control ensures hardware multi-factor authentication is enabled for the root account. With MFA enabled, when a user signs in to an AWS website, they will be prompted for their user name and password as well as for an authentication code from their AWS MFA device. For Level 2, it is recommended that the root account be protected with a hardware MFA.

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