AWS Cloud Development Kit
What is AWS Cloud Development Kit?
It is an open source software development framework to model and provision your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. It uses the familiarity and expressive power of programming languages for modeling your applications. It provides you with high-level components that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults, so you can build cloud applications without needing to be an expert.
AWS Cloud Development Kit is a tool in the Build Automation category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Easier cloud onboardingFaster development processCustomizable and shareableNo context switching
AWS Cloud Development Kit Pros & Cons
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AWS Cloud Development Kit Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to AWS Cloud Development Kit?
AWS CloudFormation
You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. You don’t need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work.
Packer
Packer automates the creation of any type of machine image. It embraces modern configuration management by encouraging you to use automated scripts to install and configure the software within your Packer-made images.
Pulumi
Pulumi is a cloud development platform that makes creating cloud programs easy and productive. Skip the YAML and just write code. Pulumi is multi-language, multi-cloud and fully extensible in both its engine and ecosystem of packages.
