Category: AWS Cloud Development Kit

In 2021, we released the AWS Analytics Reference Architecture, a new AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) application end-to-end example, as open source. In 2022, we extended the scope of this project with AWS CDK constructs to provide more granular and reusable examples.

AWS partner A&E Engineering is using online machine learning models to monitor realtime data for improved manufacturing. Learn how to successfully deploy an online serverless machine learning model using open source Python River and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK).

In conversations with our customers, we often hear that they find it tedious to write AWS CloudFormation templates to create new permission sets, assign permission sets to users and groups in AWS IAM Identity Center (successor to AWS Single Sign-On) and grant access for users and groups to multiple AWS accounts in their organization. This […]

HashiCorp and AWS have partnered to launch Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (CDKTF).

GraphQL is an application-level query language that helps clients and servers communicate by establishing a common protocol for queries. It represents an alternative to the REST style: unlike REST, GraphQL gives the client, not the server, the power to define what kind of data will be included in the response to its query. GraphQL allows […]

DevOps is a common denominator for software delivery across industries. No matter the software, developers must ensure that infrastructure resources are provisioned; testing and delivery mechanisms are in place; and security, reliability, and scalability requirements are provided. That is why choosing the right DevOps tooling is central to a delivery team’s best practices, particularly in […]

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open source software development framework used to define cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. AWS CDK can build container images locally, deploying them to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), and configure them to run as Lambda functions. AWS CDK accelerates onboarding to AWS because there […]

AWS Bottlerocket is a Linux distribution that has been designed from the ground up to run containers. With its built-in security hardening and transactional update model, Bottlerocket offers improved security and operations for container infrastructure. It can be integrated with container orchestrators to allow for auto-update, thereby reducing management and operational overhead along with improved […]

Many Java applications use Apache Maven or Gradle for building and managing the project. These tools help map how to build a particular piece of software, along with its different dependencies. In almost every scenario, these applications will depend on several external dependencies/libraries. AWS Lambda functions written in Java also use these tools for packaging […]

On September 30, 2020 a small group of community members came together to throw our first CDK Day, with people joining us from around the world to celebrate the family of products built on the Cloud Development Kit: AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), CDK for Terraform, cdk8s, and projen. CDK Day 2021 takes place […]