Your company has decided that certain users should have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled for their sign-in credentials. A newly hired manager has a Gemalto MFA device that he used in his earlier company. He has approached you to configure it for his AWS account.

How will you configure his existing Gemalto MFA device so he can seamlessly connect with AWS services in the new company?

Ref:

https://aws.amazon.com/iam/faqs/

Ans:

AWS MFA does not support the use of your existing Gemalto device - AWS MFA relies on knowing a unique secret associated with your hardware MFA (Gemalto) device in order to support its use. Because of security constraints that mandate such secrets never be shared between multiple parties, AWS MFA cannot support the use of your existing Gemalto device. Only a compatible hardware MFA device purchased from Gemalto can be used with AWS MFA. You can re-use an existing U2F security key with AWS MFA, as U2F security keys do not share any secrets between multiple parties.

Your company has decided that certain users should have Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) enabled for their sign-in credentials. A newly hired manager has a Gemalto MFA device that he used in his earlier company. He has approached you to configure it for his AWS account.

How will you configure his existing Gemalto MFA device so he can seamlessly connect with AWS services in the new company?

Ref:

https://aws.amazon.com/iam/faqs/

Ans:

AWS MFA does not support the use of your existing Gemalto device - AWS MFA relies on knowing a unique secret associated with your hardware MFA (Gemalto) device in order to support its use. Because of security constraints that mandate such secrets never be shared between multiple parties, AWS MFA cannot support the use of your existing Gemalto device. Only a compatible hardware MFA device purchased from Gemalto can be used with AWS MFA. You can re-use an existing U2F security key with AWS MFA, as U2F security keys do not share any secrets between multiple parties.