Last week, Amazon announced that it would be hopping on the Passkey train. This means that you’ll now be able to use passkeys to log in to some of your Amazon accounts (we’ll get to which ones later). The tech giant joins a slew of other companies who are saying goodbye to passwords and opting for passkeys instead.

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