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AWS CDK
Define AWS cloud resources using programming languages
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Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
stable
Languages: TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, Go
Architecture: imperative, cloudformation
When to Use
- +AWS infrastructure
- +Developer teams
- +Pattern sharing
When Not to Use
- -Multi-cloud
- -Non-AWS
Strengths
- Real languages
- AWS native
- Constructs
- Type safety
Weaknesses
- AWS only
- CloudFormation underneath
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted
Quick Facts
- Category
- Infrastructure as Code
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- high
- Data Portability
- moderate
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
smallmediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- AWS infrastructure
- Constructs
- L3 patterns
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