root-account-mfa-enabled

Checks if the root user of your AWS account requires multi-factor authentication for console sign-in. The rule is NON_COMPLIANT if the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) root account user does not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) enabled.

Note

The AWS::IAM::User resource type can only be recorded by AWS Config in Regions where AWS Config was available before February 2022. AWS::IAM::User cannot be recorded in Regions supported by AWS Config after February 2022.

Additionally, if you have selected to record AWS::IAM::User in at least one Region, periodic rules such as this rule that report compliance on AWS::IAM::User will run evaluations on AWS::IAM::User in all Regions where the periodic rule is added, even if you have not enabled the recording of AWS::IAM::User in the Region where the periodic rule was added.

You should only deploy this rule to one of the supported Regions to avoid unnecessary evaluations and API throttling. Not enabling the recording of global IAM resource types will not prevent this rule from running evaluations, if you have enable the recording of global IAM resource types in another Region. To avoid unnecessary evaluations, you should limit the deployment of this rule to one Region.

Identifier: ROOT_ACCOUNT_MFA_ENABLED

Trigger type: Periodic

AWS Region: All supported AWS regions except China (Beijing), Middle East (UAE), AWS GovCloud (US-East), AWS GovCloud (US-West), Israel (Tel Aviv), China (Ningxia) Region

Parameters:

None

AWS CloudFormation template

To create AWS Config managed rules with AWS CloudFormation templates, see Creating AWS Config Managed Rules With AWS CloudFormation Templates.