Amazon, Meta and others make important announcements at Open Source Summit

At the Open Source Summit held by the Linux Foundation in Vancouver, Canada, this May, a number of tech giants, including AWS and Meta, made quite a few important announcements.

To begin with, AWS announced that the Cedar policy language and SDK were now open sourced. Cedar helps set permissions in applications using simple policies. It supports both role-based and attribute-based access controls. The SDKs for the language, which include libraries for developing and analysing policies, have also been made available.

AWS also announced a new open source fuzzing framework called Snapchange, which has been created in Rust. It allows programmers to create fuzzers that repeat snapshots of the physical memory in a KVM virtual machine.

Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) release candidate 3.0 was also made available at the summit. Currently hosted by the Linux Foundation, SPDX is an open source standard that communicates the information in a bill of materials. The inclusion of six new, distinctive profiles in RC 3.0 will help it meet the demands of the market more effectively.

At the event, OpenSSF announced that it has got US$ 2.5 million from Google and US$ 2.5 million from Microsoft through its Alpha-Omega Project. It also said that Hitachi, Lockheed Martin, Salesforce, and SAP have become general members of OpenSSF. Omkhar Arasaratnam and Brian Behlendorf were both named as the foundation’s new general manager and chief technology officer, respectively.

Also, Meta announced that it had joined the OpenJS Foundation as a gold member. “The broader JavaScript ecosystem benefits from Meta becoming an OpenJS Foundation member. In fact, we’ve already been working together in multiple different ways, and this makes official what has already been a great relationship,” said Shayne Boyer, board director, OpenJS Foundation.