One of the AWS Account Owners Faced a Major Challenge

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Multiple Choice

One of the AWS account owners faced a major challenge in June as his account was hacked and the hacker deleted all the data from his AWS account. This resulted in a major blow to the business. Which of the below mentioned steps would not have helped in preventing this action?

• A) Setup an MFA for each user as well as for the root account user.
• B) Take a backup of the critical data to offsite / on premise.
• C) Create an AMI and a snapshot of the data at regular intervals as well as keep a copy to separate regions.
• D) Do not share the AWS access and secret access keys with others as well do not store it inside programs, instead use IAM roles.

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