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What is Cedar?

Overview

Terms & concepts
Design patterns
Example scenario
Additional resources

Authorization requests

Authorization
Entities & context JSON syntax

Policies

Basic Cedar syntax
Entities
Data types
Operators
Policy validation
Policy grammar
JSON policy format
Policy examples
Policy templates
Policy level validation

Schema

Schema overview
Cedar schema grammar
Cedar schema format
JSON schema grammar
JSON schema format

Best practices

Best Practices overview
Naming conventions
Compound authorization
Permissions
Representing relationships
Resource containers
Separate principals & containers
Populate the policy scope
Normalize data input
Using the context
Meta-permissions
Avoid mutable identifiers
Using role-based access control
Other considerations

Other

Security
Document history

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