Infrastructure Support at the Rust Foundation
One of the key pillars of the Rust Foundation’s mission is to provide robust infrastructure support to the Rust Project and community, particularly as the popularity and use of Rust continues to rise. In doing so, we help ensure that the infrastructure of Rust and related projects is reliable, efficient, productive, and secure.
Rust is one of the fastest-growing programming languages available today.
This growth is associated with infrastructure challenges and consequences that the Rust Foundation helps address through infrastructure support initiatives.
Our mission-critical Rust infrastructure work is made possible by our team’s infrastructure engineers, their collaborators within the Rust Project, and generous infrastructure donations from the organizations listed below.
Key Contributors
The following team members help direct and carry out the Rust Foundation's infrastructure contributions to the Rust language ecosystem. They remain in constant collaboration with the Rust Project's Infrastructure Team.
What it Takes to Keep Rust Running
Learn more about the infrastructure requirements of Rust in this recording of Jan David Nose's talk at Rust Nation UK 2024:
Donors
The following organizations have generously donated in-kind infrastructure services to the Rust Foundation. Our Technology Team team is grateful for the benefits they provide to the Foundation and Rust ecosystem:
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Since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 102 Availability Zones within 32 geographic regions, with announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones and five more AWS Regions in Canada, Germany, Malaysia, New Zealand, and Thailand. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. In addition to serving as a founding Platinum Member of the Rust Foundation, AWS has made generous in-kind and financial donations in support of our Security Initiative.
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Fastly is an American cloud computing services company that provides real-time content delivery network (CDN) services. Their edge cloud platform helps developers extend their cloud infrastructure to the edge of the network, closer to users.
The Rust Foundation is grateful to be included in Fastly’s Fast Forward program, which allows the Rust Project to harness Fastly’s full-site delivery and powerful Compute@Edge platform at no cost.
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GitHub is the open source platform of choice for the Rust Project. All of the source code, builds and releases for the entire project are available through GitHub. The Rust Foundation helps manage the relationship with GitHub.
GitHub has generously donated the Foundation and the Rust Project in-kind infrastructure for running builds and tests for the Rust language and ecosystem. We appreciate their support of the Foundation and Rust.
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Google is a multinational technology company focusing on artificial intelligence, online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, and consumer electronics. Their mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.
Google joined the Rust Foundation as a founding Platinum Member following years of early exploration of and investment in Rust. They attribute a drop in the share of memory-safety vulnerabilities in Android to their recent Rust adoption.
Google has also lent its time and expertise to the ongoing development of the Security Initiative. We look forward to further collaborating with them as this work continues.
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Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services. Their mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft joined the Rust Foundation as a founding Platinum Member following years of early investment in and exploration of Rust. They are collaborating with the Rust community to continue improving the Rust language, providing tooling and library support, creating learning resources, and more.
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Mullvad VPN is a VPN service based in Sweden that focuses on user privacy and security. Mullvad’s features include a no-logs policy, encryption, leak protection, and much more.
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Wiz is the unified cloud security platform for cloud security and development teams that includes prevention, active detection and response. The Rust Foundation is grateful to Wiz for generously donating access to their platform to the Security Initiative.
Contact
Interested in supporting the Rust Foundation's infrastructure efforts? Get in touch with us via email at contact@rustfoundation.org today!