Demo of the Cedar Programming Language - The Open Source Language from AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has open-sourced Cedar, a programming language designed to assist developers in managing access to resources like data, compute nodes, and workflow automation components. Cedar's core features were showcased for this demo by Mike Hicks, a senior principal applied scientist at AWS, during the Open Source Summit North America.
With Cedar, developers can write policies instead of manually implementing permission systems, delegating access requests to Cedar's authorization engine. The language employs automated reasoning and intensive testing to ensure correctness, providing user-friendly policies, low latencies, and bug-finding tools. By automating and improving authorization capabilities, Cedar enhances the developer experience.
Cedar originated as the policy language for Amazon Verified Permissions (AVP), a service that offers fine-grained permissions and authorizations for custom applications. By running authorizations stored in AVP, developers can centralize logging and auditing within the cloud service. However, some applications require a local authorization engine, and open-sourcing Cedar enables these customizations and empowers the community to contribute features and bindings for various programming languages.
AWS has released Cedar under the Apache License 2.0, including the language specification and software development kit (SDK) with libraries for policy authoring, validation, and access authorization.
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Don't forget to check out this other open source demo from AWS:
Amazon Web Services Open Sources a KVM-Based Fuzzing Framework
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[@marquinho1p]

Wonder if cedar can be used for aws resources too.

[@tinynova]

Amazon's version of Google Zanzibar?