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Are you sure about that? My AWS 2FA authenticator code has been out of sync for a while and they offer multiple options to get around it. I've been receiving SMS codes easily, in fact I just did this a couple days ago. IIRC they also offered to call me. Did you flip some bit somewhere to disallow this? Do you have a phone number set up?

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Yep, it was a couple years ago. They ask questions, then disabled 2FA so I could just get in with a password, and re-enable 2FA. No options around it. So possibly they've improved the process since then.

Can confirm it’s still similar. Went through the same process 2 months ago.

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