Everything You Need to Know About #Cedar, from the #AWS Engineer Who Helped Build It | #OpenSource

Key Concepts:

• Cedar
• Open-source authorization engine
• Policy language
• AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Request authorization
• Performance
• Safety

Introduction to Cedar

Cedar is an open-source authorization engine and policy language developed by AWS. It was initially released in 2022. The primary motivation behind Cedar's creation was to address challenges faced by both internal Amazon teams and external AWS customers concerning how to effectively authorize requests. The core problems Cedar aims to solve revolve around ensuring that authorization processes are fast, safe, and performant. It evolved from these specific needs and customer feedback to provide a robust solution for authorization.