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Developers and organizations seeking a tool to manage their access control mechanisms within their applications
About Cedar
Cedar is an open source policy language and evaluation engine developed by AWS to facilitate fine-grained access control in applications. It enables developers to define clear and concise authorization policies, decoupling access control from application logic. Cedar supports common authorization models, including role-based access control and attribute-based access control, allowing for expressive and analyzable policy definitions. Its design emphasizes readability and performance, ensuring that policies are both easy to understand and efficient to enforce. By integrating Cedar, applications can make precise authorization decisions, enhancing security and maintainability. The policy structure is designed to be indexed for quick retrieval and to support fast and scalable real-time evaluation, with bounded latency. It enables analyzer tools capable of optimizing your policies and proving that your security model is what you believe it is.
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