CDKs

CDKs. Cloud Development Kits (AWS CDK and similar) generate infrastructure from general-purpose programming languages.

Blurb

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open-source software development framework used to model and provision your cloud application resources with familiar programming languages.

Summary

Garden stance: We hold CDKs for our estate.

When to use: Evaluate on a project when the capability clearly fits the requirement.

When to skip: When a simpler alternative already covers the need.