Update security challenge questions
Security challenge questions are a verification method used previously to verify an identity in account recovery scenarios. They are less secure than more modern forms of verification, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA). If you currently have security challenge questions active on your AWS account, AWS Support can use these to help authenticate you as the owner of the account.
Important
Starting January 5, 2024, AWS will no longer support security challenge questions
for accounts that have not already enabled and used them. This will remove the option to
add new security challenge questions from the Accounts page in the
AWS Management Console. If you have already set security challenge questions or have already set them
on the management account in your AWS Organization, you can continue to use
them. After January 6, 2025, AWS will no longer support security challenge questions
for all remaining customers. We encourage you to add MFA
instead. For more information, see AWS Accounts discontinues the use of security challenge questions
To edit existing security challenge questions and provide the answers, perform the steps in the following procedure.
