AWS Open Source Blog
Category: Announcements
Secure your Express application APIs in 5 minutes with Cedar
Today, the open source Cedar project announced the release of authorization-for-expressjs, an open source package that simplifies using the Cedar policy language and authorization engine to verify application permissions. This release allows developers to add policy-based authorization to their Express web framework APIs within minutes, and without any remote service calls. Express is a minimal […]
Introducing Cedar Analysis: Open Source Tools for Verifying Authorization Policies
Today, we’re excited to announce Cedar Analysis, a new open source toolkit for developers that makes it easier for everyone to verify the behavior of their Cedar policies. Cedar is an open source authorization system that enables developers to implement fine-grained access controls in their applications. With ~1.17 million downloads and growing adoption, Cedar is […]
GNOME has a new infrastructure partner: welcome AWS!
This post was contributed by Andrea Veri from the GNOME Foundation. It has been cross-posted from gnome.org with permission. GNOME has historically hosted its infrastructure on premises. That changed with an AWS Open Source Credits program sponsorship which has allowed our team of two SREs to migrate the majority of the workloads to the cloud […]
Introducing Strands Agents, an Open Source AI Agents SDK
Today I am happy to announce we are releasing Strands Agents. Strands Agents is an open source SDK that takes a model-driven approach to building and running AI agents in just a few lines of code. Strands scales from simple to complex agent use cases, and from local development to deployment in production. Multiple teams […]
AWS Cloud Credits for Open Source Projects: Affirming Our Commitment
Today, Amazon Web Services is proud to reaffirm our commitment to providing vital infrastructure for free and open source software projects. One of the ways we are doing this is with an extended $3 million annual commitment to the Kubernetes project, the container orchestration platform which underpins the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). We’re […]
Introducing Qonto’s Prometheus RDS Exporter – An Open Source Solution to Enhance Monitoring Amazon RDS
Databases are a critical part of most applications and essential to business continuity. To ensure performance, availability, and scalability, Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) administrators typically monitor various metrics, such as the usage of CPU, RAM, IOPS, storage, or service quotas. Today, these metrics are found in several AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch […]
Kube Resource Orchestrator, From Experiment to Community Project
When we introduced our new experimental project Kube Resource Orchestrator (kro) in November last year at KubeCon North America, we were thrilled by the initial response. Customers are excited about kro’s simplicity, and we have seen some creative and novel solutions to common problems. We have heard from platform teams looking to simplify resource management, […]
AWS CDK is splitting Construct Library and CLI
AWS CDK is an open source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation. It consists of two primary components: the Construct Library that you use in a programming language to model your AWS application, and a CLI. The Construct Library “synthesizes” a model of your application to […]
Shaping the future of CDK together
When AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) was announced in 2019, the project introduced a new stage in the evolution of infrastructure as code (IaC), and changed the way customers build on AWS. For those less familiar, CDK is an open source software development framework enabling builders to model and provision their cloud application resources using […]
Verify the Safety of the Rust Standard Library
Rust is one of the fastest growing languages around the world. The Rust community has grown into millions of developers, with more products and services relying on Rust. The ergonomics and strong compiler guarantees make Rust an ideal choice for developers. With this growth though, the Rust community has also recognized the unsafety of Rust […]