AWS Open Source Blog
Author: Mike Hicks
Mike Hicks is a Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland. His research explores programming languages and security. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages, and prior Chair of ACM’s Special Interest Group on Programming Languages. He co-leads the development of Cedar, the policy language underpinning the new Amazon Verified Permissions authorization service.
Using Open Source Cedar to Write and Enforce Custom Authorization Policies
Learn how to use the open source Cedar language and the SDK using an example application, TinyTodo. We present examples of TinyTodo permissions as Cedar policies and how TinyTodo uses the Cedar authorization engine to ensure that only intended users are granted access.