The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) allows you to define your AWS resources using the programming languages you know and love. This concept piqued the interest of many of us here at Instil; when someone offers us the ability to use Typescript instead of YAML we’re sold!
I have been using CDK for the past 3 years for container-based and serverless projects, and what I think is CDK’s greatest strength are the guard rails it provides to the developer: