Amazon released Cedar as an open source project on May 10, 2023. Why? The open source strategy will shed light on what AWS is expecting to accomplish with Cedar. Are they expecting open source contributions? Does AWS believe open source will increase the rate of developer adoption? Why did AWS chose to open source both the policy syntax and the Engines (Rust, Java, Go). Why choose the Apache 2.0 license? What was the business case the Cedar team made to AWS management? What are some of the metrics that AWS will use to measure the success of Cedar adoption? What other open source projects does Cedar resemble at AWS? Join this episode for a deep dive into the Cedar open source strategy!