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Yocto vs AWS Cloud Development Kit: What are the differences?
Developers describe Yocto as "An open Source embedded Linux build system". It is an open source collaboration project that helps developers create custom Linux-based systems regardless of the hardware architecture. It provides a flexible set of tools and a space where embedded developers worldwide can share technologies, software stacks, configurations, and best practices that can be used to create tailored Linux images for embedded and IOT devices, or anywhere a customized Linux OS is needed. On the other hand, AWS Cloud Development Kit is detailed as "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.
Yocto and AWS Cloud Development Kit can be categorized as "Infrastructure Build" tools.
Some of the features offered by Yocto are:
- Open source embedded Linux build system
- package metadata
- SDK generator
On the other hand, AWS Cloud Development Kit provides the following key features:
- Easier cloud onboarding
- Faster development process
- Customizable and shareable