Building Infrastructure Using Code with CloudFormation and the Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

Building and managing infrastructure has become increasingly complex and time-consuming in today’s fast-paced digital world. With the rapid growth of cloud computing, organizations are constantly looking for ways to automate the deployment and management of their infrastructure. This is where CloudFormation and the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) come into play.

AWS CloudFormation is an AWS service that allows you to model and set up your infrastructure as code (IaC). It provides a way to automate the process of creating, updating, and deleting AWS resources in an organized and predictable manner. This reduces the chances of human error and makes deploying and maintaining infrastructure more efficient.

Taking this one step further, AWS offers another service called the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). This service provides high-level libraries for developing cloud applications in...