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README.md

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

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The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. The CDK integrates fully with AWS services and offers a higher level object-oriented abstraction to define AWS resources imperatively. Using the CDK’s library of infrastructure constructs, you can easily encapsulate AWS best practices in your infrastructure definition and share it without worrying about boilerplate logic. The CDK improves the end-to-end development experience because you get to use the power of modern programming languages to define your AWS infrastructure in a predictable and efficient manner. The CDK is currently available for Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

The CDK is currently in developer preview and we look forward to community feedback and collaboration!

User Guide | Getting Started | API Reference | Getting Help

Example usage of CDK

Developers can use one of the supported programming languages to define reusable cloud components called constructs, which are composed together into stacks and apps.

The AWS CDK Toolkit is a command-line tool for interacting with CDK apps. It allows developers to synthesize artifacts such as AWS CloudFormation Templates, deploy stacks to development AWS accounts and "diff" against a deployed stack to understand the impact of a code change.

The AWS Construct Library includes a module for each AWS service with constructs that offer rich APIs that encapsulate the details of how to use AWS. The AWS Construct Library aims to reduce the complexity and glue-logic required when integrating various AWS services to achieve your goals on AWS.

Getting Started

Install or update the AWS CDK Toolkit from npm (requires Node.js ≥ 8.11.x):

$ npm i -g aws-cdk

Initialize a project:

$ mkdir hello-cdk
$ cd hello-cdk
$ cdk init app --language=typescript
# or
$ cdk init app --language=java
# more languages (coming soon)...

Use the cdk command-line toolkit to interact with your project:

  • cdk deploy: deploys your app into an AWS account
  • cdk synth: synthesizes an AWS CloudFormation template for your app
  • cdk diff: compares your app with the deployed stack

Read the docs:

$ cdk docs

Getting Help

Please use these community resources for getting help. We use the GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests.

  • Ask a question on Stack Overflow and tag it with aws-cdk
  • Come join the AWS CDK community on Gitter
  • Open a support ticket with AWS Support
  • If it turns out that you may have found a bug, please open an issue

Contributing

We welcome community contributions and pull requests. See CONTRIBUTING for information on how to set up a development environment and submit code.

License

The AWS CDK is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

See LICENSE and NOTICE for more information.