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Understanding AWS CDK

Understanding AWS CDK - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Understanding AWS CDK

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- [Instructor] In this course we'll use Amazon Web Services, or AWS, Cloud Development Kit, CDK, as the infrastructure as code framework for building the demos. If you're not familiar with this framework, this video will help you to understand its basic concepts. AWS CDK is an open source framework that helps you define and manage your cloud infrastructure using code. Instead of writing long and complex YAML or JSON templates, CDK allows you to use familiar programming languages like Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Java, or C Sharp. With AWS CDK, you can define your cloud resources like Lambda functions, S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, and more as constructs in your application code. Previously, you learn about many frameworks that help you manage your infrastructure. So you may be wondering why to use AWS CDK? Here is why AWS CDK is so powerful. Developer friendly. You write infrastructure as code in a programming language you already know. This means you can use loops, conditionals…

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