CDKs

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First Added:April 10, 2025 Updated: May 17, 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.