IAM compliance automation: enforce MFA and clean up access keys in AWS

by Trung Tran ✓ · 453 views · created 2025-08-19 · SecOps, Multimodal AI

What this workflow does

This workflow has 10 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day). Along the way it connects AWS IAM and Slack.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day).

1. Get many users (AWS IAM): uses AWS IAM
2. Get IAM User MFA Devices (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
3. Filter: keeps only the items that match a condition
4. Send warning message(s) (Slack): uses Slack
5. Get User Access Key(s) (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
6. Parse the list of user access key(s) (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
7. Filter: keeps only the items that match a condition
8. Send message and wait for response (Slack): send and wait for a reply
9. Deactivate Access Key(s) (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API

Services it uses

AWS IAMSlack

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Nodes used (6)

• AWS IAMn8n-nodes-base.awsIam
• HTTP Requestn8n-nodes-base.httpRequest
• Filtern8n-nodes-base.filter
• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Slackn8n-nodes-base.slack
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code

From the author

Automated AWS IAM Compliance Workflow for MFA Enforcement and Access Key Deactivation > This workflow leverages AWS IAM APIs and n8n automation to ensure strict security compliance by continuously monitoring IAM users for MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication)…

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