AWS CDK

Purpose

Define AWS infrastructure in a real programming language without losing the reviewability of a plan. The CDK's power — abstraction, loops, conditionals — is also its risk: a small code change can generate a large and destructive CloudFormation diff.

When to Use

• Defining AWS infrastructure with the CDK.
• Structuring stacks and reusable constructs.
• Testing infrastructure code.
• Reviewing a CDK deployment before it runs.

Capabilities