Planning for a successful cloud services multi-factor authentication deployment

Cloud Pro recently reported that Amazon was beefing up security of the AWS WorkSpaces DaaS offering by enabling support for multi-factor authentication (MFA). That in itself is great news, but it also begs the question "how can non-WorkSpaces users join the 'more secure' party?" The reality is most platforms and operating systems already support multi-factor authentication. Be that the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) plugin for Google's Time-based One-time Password (TOTP) algorithm under Linux or Microsoft's Active Directory support for MFA in Azure, for example. So perhaps the question should be "how can you successfully adopt a MFA strategy in the cloud?" We've been asking just that question of some industry players...