AWS Cloud Development Kit

Define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages

Werner Vogels on AWS CDK

Amazon.com VP and CTO Werner Vogels discusses the benefits of abstractions in computer science and how developers can use AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) to more easily create high-level infrastructure patterns for their applications.

Benefits of AWS CDK

Use the expressive power of familiar programming languages to define your application resources and accelerate development.

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Simplify your AWS onboarding by using constructs that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults.

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Design and share reusable components that meet your organization's security, compliance, and governance requirements.

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Build applications, write runtime code, and define resources without leaving your integrated development environment (IDE).

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Use cases

Develop applications more efficiently using AWS CDK as the main framework to define cloud infrastructure as code.

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Migrate complex backend infrastructure more efficiently, while integrating with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.

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Discover and use AWS CDK constructs created by the developer community to programmatically create new microservices.

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Accelerate transitions from brand-new to fully deployed infrastructure using TypeScript, Python, Java, .NET, and Go (in developer Preview).

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