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AWS Converts Cedar Policy-as-Code Tool to Open Source Project

DevOps.com

At the Open Source Summit North America conference today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced it is making Cedar, a language for defining permissions as policies that includes automated reasoning to mathematically prove an IT environment is secure, available as an open source project.

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Los Angeles IT secures the vote with open source and the cloud

CIO

Aman Bhullar, CIO of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk, has heeded the call, having led a widespread overhaul of antiquated voting infrastructure just in time for the contentious 2020 presidential election — a transformation rich in open source software to ensure other counties can benefit from his team’s work.

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AWS Open Source Observability: Visualization and Security Auditing with CloudMapper (Part 1)

Xebia

When it comes to Cloud Observability, several Open Source and proprietary tools have been available over the years. More sophisticated methods of detection, reporting, integrations… But what is the value of Open Source solutions on this topic? Customer support and available manuals/documentation (current, and on-request).

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Together raises $20M to build open source generative AI models

TechCrunch

With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang are seeking to create open source generative AI models and services that, in their words, “help organizations incorporate AI into their production applications.” Google Cloud, AWS, Azure). Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).

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AWS Open Source Observability – Amazon Neptune and Security Graphs (Part 2)

Xebia

Amazon Neptune is a managed graph database service offered by AWS. Setting up the environment in AWS This walkthrough assumes you are familiar with networking in AWS and can set up the corresponding ACLs, Route tables, and Security Groups for VPC/Regional reachability. aws/config ).

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Speckle snags $5.5M seed to build open source platform for 3D drawings

TechCrunch

They wanted to make it easier by building an open source platform to exchange and collaborate on these files. “It’s coupled by an awful lot of political hurdles as well. And what we do is we break that open by allowing people to essentially talk with each other in real time using 3D.

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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

TechCrunch

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 and Europe. .