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The Cedar Programming Language: Authorization Simplified

Amazon Web Services open sourced Cedar this Spring, a language for helping developers control access to resources such as https://thenewstack.io/aws-open-sources-security-tools/ components. https://github.com/mwhicks1, a senior principal applied scientist with Amazon Web Services, demoed Cedar’s core features for The New Stack at the Open Source Summit North America last month in Vancouver, BC.

“But instead with Cedar, you can write Cedar policies, and you can delegate access requests to the Cedar authorization engine.

Cedar started its life as the policy language for https://aws.amazon.com/verified-permissions/, now in private preview, Hicks said.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/05/cedar-open-source-language-access-control/, “Cedar is open-sourced under the Apache License 2.0 and includes the Cedar language specification and software development kit (SDK).