01-overview.md

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OVERVIEW

What is a CDK ?

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source framework for defining cloud infrastructure.

Key Features

• Imperative to Declarative: Transforms imperative code into declarative CloudFormation templates.
• CloudFormation Integration: Utilizes CloudFormation for infrastructure creation.
• Language Support: Core in TypeScript, with JSII enabling compatibility with:
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • C#
  • Go

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What is Cloudformation?

CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, specialized for AWS, automating cloud resource deployment and management. It's similar to Terraform but more AWS-centric.

Key Features:

• Stacks: Collections of AWS resources managed as a single unit.
• Templates: Defined in YAML/JSON, using declarative code to specify resource configurations.

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