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AWS Certified Solutions Architect study material · question 128 of 500

Why does AWS recommend federating human users rather than creating IAM users for them?

  1. Identities stay in the corporate directory and no long-term keys are distributed
  2. Federated users can bypass service control policies
  3. Federated users are billed at a lower rate
  4. IAM users cannot be given multi-factor authentication
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Answer: A. Identities stay in the corporate directory and no long-term keys are distributed

Federation leaves identity management where it already is and avoids handing out long-term credentials that must be rotated.

Source: Identity providers and federation into AWS (Amazon Web Services) — Identity providers and federation into AWS

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