CDKs

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First Added:April 10, 2025 Updated: May 18, 2026

CDKs

Cloud Development Kits (AWS CDK and similar) generate infrastructure from general-purpose programming languages. They are a form of Imperative IaC: convenient for prototypes, but they obscure blast radius and often lead to regret at scale. We rate CDKs hold for the same reasons as Pulumi; prefer Declarative IaC with Terraform when your team can use it.