[bostik]

Oh cool, this has been my number one complaint about AWS credentials management since early 2016 or so. Over the years I've talked to a number of their project and program managers and until 2019 (that is, before the plague) they all told me that they were aware of the problem but had no plans - or even intent to fix it. Apparently the one-set-of-credentials constraint is so deeply tied into their platform that fixing it was simply deemed infeasible.

Appears that while they couldn't fix it, they have gone ahead with a workaround and made multi-device 2FA support a feature in a potential auth replacement system.

Must have been a particularly frequent and loud complaint.