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Nick MacDonald

Author: Nick MacDonald

Nick MacDonald is a Principal Software Development Engineer in RDS at Amazon Web Services, based in Vancouver, Canada. With over 13 years at Amazon, he brings deep expertise in building and scaling cloud database services.

Introducing Trusted Remote Execution: Policy-Enforced Scripts for AI Agents and Humans

Today, we’re announcing Trusted Remote Execution (Rex, for short) — an open source scripting runtime where every system operation is authorized by policy. Scripts are written in Rhai, a lightweight language with no built-in system access. The only way to reach the host is through operations Rex explicitly provides, which are authorized against a Cedar […]