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Category: AWS Cloud Development Kit

CDK Corner – April 2021

Social – Community Engagement We’re getting closer and closer to CDK Day, with the event receiving 75 CFP submissions. The cdkday schedule is now available to plan out your conference day. Updates to the CDK Constructs promoted to General Availability Promoting a module to stable/General Availability is always a cause for celebration. Great job to […]

Solution architecture

Integrating with Aarogya Setu Open API on AWS to ensure a safe workspace

The Indian government announced the Open API Service from Aarogya Setu (ASetu) in August, 2020. It enables organizations and business entities to fetch the COVID-19 risk status of their employees or any other ASetu app users. Most office spaces have a visitor management system that controls access or logs the identities of people entering the […]

CDK Philosophy

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 […]

AWS Solutions Constructs and 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.

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 […]