AWS Cloud Development Kit vs Habitat

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Habitat vs AWS Cloud Development Kit: What are the differences?

Habitat: Application Automation framework by Chef. Habitat is a new approach to automation that focuses on the application instead of the infrastructure it runs on. With Habitat, the apps you build, deploy, and manage behave consistently in any runtime — metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features; AWS Cloud Development Kit: A framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code. 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.

Habitat and AWS Cloud Development Kit can be primarily classified as "Infrastructure Build" tools.

Habitat is an open source tool with 2.22K GitHub stars and 316 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Habitat's open source repository on GitHub.

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    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.

    What is Habitat?

    Habitat is a new approach to automation that focuses on the application instead of the infrastructure it runs on. With Habitat, the apps you build, deploy, and manage behave consistently in any runtime — metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features.

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