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Hello Amazon CDK 🚀

Amazon CDK simplifies AWS onboarding, enabling faster infrastructure provisioning, and facilitating the creation of reusable components.

Harrison Jnr

Jun 22, 2023 — 1 min read

Question:

What is Amazon CDK & what are the benefits of using CDK over manual console configurations?

What is Amazon CDK?

🚀 The Amazon Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a framework that allows developers to define cloud application resources using familiar programming languages.

Amazon CDK simplifies AWS onboarding, enabling faster infrastructure provisioning, and facilitating the creation of reusable components.

Here are some outlined benefits of using Amazon CDK over manual setup/configurations

✅ Simplifies cloud development by leveraging familiar programming languages to define application resources.

✅ Accelerates development process by providing preconfigured constructs and defaults for cloud resources.

✅ Enables the creation of reusable components that meet security, compliance, and governance requirements.

✅ Facilitates seamless integration with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for efficient infrastructure provisioning.

✅ Supports multiple programming languages like TypeScript, Python, Java, .NET, and Go, allowing developers to work within their preferred environment.

✅ Provides a wide range of community-contributed constructs through Construct Hub, allowing developers to leverage and share pre-built microservices.

✅ Reduces time and effort required for backend infrastructure migration and deployment.

✅ Enables developers to focus on writing application logic without leaving their integrated development environment (IDE).

✅ Offers comprehensive documentation and resources for learning and getting started with AWS CDK.

✅ Supported by AWS, ensuring reliability, scalability, and compatibility with other AWS services.

We will cover the installation and usage in another article coming up soon.

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