Enforcing MFA/2FA on AWS Users

May 27, 2021  |  1 min read

Synopsis

Use IAM policy that enforces multi-factor authentication (MFA) to restrict access to (almost) all AWS resources on the users whose MFA is not turned on.

Example

The complete policy can be found on AWS: Allows MFA-authenticated IAM users to manage their own credentials on the My Security Credentials page.

To let users that have not set up MFA change their password, I'd put "iam:ChangePassword" in "DenyAllExceptListedIfNoMFA"'s "NotAction" list:

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        // ...omitted
        {
            "Sid": "DenyAllExceptListedIfNoMFA",
            "Effect": "Deny",
            "NotAction": [
                "iam:CreateVirtualMFADevice",
                "iam:EnableMFADevice",
                "iam:GetUser",
                "iam:ListMFADevices",
                "iam:ListVirtualMFADevices",
                "iam:ResyncMFADevice",
                "sts:GetSessionToken",
                "iam:ChangePassword"
            ],
            "Resource": "*",
            "Condition": {
                "BoolIfExists": {
                    "aws:MultiFactorAuthPresent": "false"
                }
            }
        }
    ]
}

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