Troubleshooting the MFA in Lambda— Works Locally, Not In Lambda

ACM.330 Resolved some issues, others could not due to misleading error messages and mismatched environments

Teri Radichel
Cloud Security
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17 min readOct 6, 2023

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In the last post I wanted to deploy a pretty cool way to enforce MFA on GitHub actions (like clone, commit, etc.)

Not to be confused with GitHub Actions — which require you to share AWS credentials with GitHub and has proven to be problematic in some cases as I wrote about in prior posts on GitHub Security:

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Teri Radichel
Teri Radichel

Written by Teri Radichel

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