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Defining Cloud Infrastructure with the AWS CDK v2 in Python

Difficulty: Intermediate

Duration: Up to 1 hour

Students: 443

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Description

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework used to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages.

Before the AWS CDK, you had to rely heavily on AWS CloudFormation or AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to define your cloud application resources, which required a decent understanding of YAML or JSON. The AWS CDK provides a programming model above these native template languages that increase productivity when developers are building out their infrastructure as code.

The AWS CDK includes the AWS Construct Library which supports many AWS services and configurations as well as the AWS CDK Toolkit which serves as the primary tool for instantiating and deploying your resources to AWS CloudFormation.

In this lab, you will use the AWS CDK Toolkit to create an AWS CloudFormation stack using the Python programming language.

The majority of the steps in this lab will be performed in a code IDE, but you will be logging into the AWS console in the later stages of the lab to verify and test the resources spun up by the AWS CDK.

Important: This hands-on lab uses the latest AWS CDK v2. For hands-on labs and challenges that use the AWS CDK v1, refer to the Get Hands-on with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK v1) learning path.