Automate Cedar policy validation with AWS developer tools
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This article discusses how to automate the validation of Cedar policies, which are used in AWS security services like AWS Verified Access and Amazon Verified Permissions, using AWS developer tools.
Specifically, the article covers:
- An overview of the Cedar policy language and its use in a hypothetical photo sharing application
- Setting up a CodePipeline that validates Cedar policies against a schema and runs tests when policies are updated
- Refactoring some example policies and observing that the test suite passes
- Intentionally introducing a policy error to demonstrate how the pipeline catches the issue
- Cleaning up the resources created for the pipeline
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