AWS Security Blog
Author: Jonathan VanKim
Secure root user access for member accounts in AWS Organizations
November 17, 2025: The MFA Security Key program, which provided eligible customers with free MFA devices, has been discontinued effective November 6th, 2025. While existing devices will continue to function normally, no new orders for MFA security keys will be accepted after the program closure date. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) now supports centralized […]
How to use regional SAML endpoints for failover
August 10, 2022: This blog post has been updated to reflect the new name of AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) – AWS IAM Identity Center. Read more about the name change here. Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers choose to use federation with SAML 2.0 in order to use their existing identity provider (IdP) and avoid […]