Millions of companies – including many Okta customers – rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to power their businesses. According to 2020's Businesses@Work Report, AWS has risen steadily from sixth place five years ago to the second most popular cloud app used by Okta customers. As companies increasingly use AWS to power their infrastructure, they face challenges securing privileged access, maintaining, and rotating keys of their server infrastructure. Organizations face maintenance and security burden every time employees join, move, or leave the organization, when server keys are regularly rotated to meet compliance requirements, and when server keys are accidentally disclosed or stolen. To overcome these challenges, Okta and AWS partnered to include Okta Advanced Server Access (ASA) on the AWS Quick Starts program. The ASA Quick Start allows organizations to use Okta's Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), and Account Lifecycle (LCM) to access Amazon EC2 servers, eliminating the.