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Category: AWS Cloud Development Kit
Best practices for developing cloud applications with AWS CDK
April 20, 2022: Updates are available in the Best practices topic of the AWS CDK documentation. The documentation is the most up-to-date resource going forward. In this post, we discuss strategies for organizing the development of complex cloud applications with large teams, using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) as a central technology. AWS […]
Developing enterprise application patterns with the AWS CDK
Enterprises often need to standardize their infrastructure as code (IaC) for governance, compliance, and quality control reasons. You also need to manage and centrally publish updates to your IaC libraries. In this post, we demonstrate how to use the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to define patterns for IaC and publish them for consumption […]
CDK Corner – February 2021
Social: Events in the Community CDK Day is coming up on April 30th! This is your chance to meet and engage with the CDK Community! Last year’s event included an incredible amount of content, whether it was learning the origin story of CDK, learning how CDK is used in a Large Enterprise, there were many […]
CDK Corner – January 2021
December was an exciting month for CDK! Jason Fulghum delivered an AWS re:Invent presentation on how CDK has changed over the past year and what customers can expect in the next year. The highlight of this talk was the alpha release of CDK v2. This is the first major version bump since the AWS CDK […]
Rapid and flexible Infrastructure as Code using the AWS CDK with AWS Solutions Constructs
AWS Solutions Constructs provide a library of common service patterns built on top of the AWS CDK. These multi-service patterns allow you to deploy multiple resources with a single object, resources that follow best practices by default – both independently and throughout their interaction.
Building, bundling, and deploying applications with the AWS CDK
Learn how to perform application build commands as part of your AWS CDK build process by using the native AWS CDK bundling functionality.
Automating cross-account actions with an AWS CDK credential plugin
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. You can automate release pipelines for your infrastructure defined by the AWS CDK by using tools such as AWS CodePipeline. As the architecture for your application becomes more complex, so […]