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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

AWS CDK lets you define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages instead of writing raw YAML or JSON templates. It synthesizes your code into CloudFormation templates, handling the complex logic of resource dependencies and configuration directly within your application codebase. This approach turns infrastructure management into a standard software development workflow, enabling version control, testing, and modular reuse of infrastructure components.

It suits teams already comfortable with TypeScript, Python, or Java who want to treat infrastructure as code with full programming capabilities. The main friction point is the lack of a free tier; you pay for the underlying AWS resources you deploy, not for the CDK tool itself. This means experimentation costs money, so you need to carefully manage resource lifecycles to avoid unnecessary expenses during development and testing phases.

• Free tier No
• Pricing Pay as you go
• Regions 15 · 6 continents
• SLA uptime 99.99%
• Compliance 13 certifications
• Provider health A