Enable Mandatory MFA for IAM Users in AWS—Deny Access Without MFA -Conditional IAM Policies Tutorial

Strengthen your AWS security posture by enforcing mandatory MFA for IAM users before they can access critical resources. In this hands-on tutorial, you’ll learn how to use Conditional IAM Policies to automatically deny access when MFA is not enabled — a must-have best practice for any secure AWS environment.

🔐 What You’ll Learn in This Video:

How to enforce MFA for IAM users in AWS
How conditional IAM policies work (aws:MultiFactorAuthPresent)
How to deny access unless MFA is enabled
Step-by-step demo: creating, attaching, and testing the policy
IAM security best practices for real-world AWS environments

This is essential knowledge for anyone preparing for AWS Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate (SAA-C03), or Security Specialty, as well as engineers implementing compliance controls.

Sample IAM Policy: Deny Access Without MFA
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Deny",
"Action": "*",
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"Bool": {"aws:MultiFactorAuthPresent": "false"}
}
}
]
}

Who This Video Is For:

Cloud Engineers & DevOps professionals
AWS beginners learning IAM security
Organisations enforcing MFA compliance
Learners preparing for AWS certifications

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