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Remediation

Perform the following to set the password policy as prescribed:

From Console​

  1. Login to AWS Console (with appropriate permissions to View Identity Access Management Account Settings).
  2. Go to IAM Service on the AWS Console.
  3. Click on Account Settings on the Left Pane.
  4. Set Minimum password length to 14 or greater.
  5. Click Apply password policy.

From Command Line​

Run the following command:

aws iam update-account-password-policy --minimum-password-length 14

Note: All commands starting with "aws iam update-account-password-policy" can be combined into a single command.