aws/aws-cdk
The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
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Where it stands
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Ranks #322 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 11%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 4 days ago, with 390 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Defines and provisions cloud infrastructure using code with high-level abstractions for AWS resources.
- Enables infrastructure as code with modern programming languages, reducing boilerplate and encapsulating AWS best practices.
- Use for automating AWS resource deployment and management in a maintainable, reusable codebase.
- Use for integrating multiple AWS services seamlessly with rich, composable constructs in TypeScript or other supported languages.
- Use for teams adopting DevOps practices to version control and review infrastructure changes alongside application code.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
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From the README
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework to define cloud infrastructure in code and provision it through AWS CloudFormation.
It offers a high-level object-oriented abstraction to define AWS resources imperatively using the power of modern programming languages. 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 is available in the following languages:
Third-party Language Deprecation: language version is only supported until its EOL (End Of Life) shared by the vendor or community and is subject to change with prior notice.
Developers use the CDK framework in one of the supported programming languages to define reusable cloud components called constructs, which are composed together into stacks, forming a "CDK app".
They then use the AWS CDK CLI to interact with their CDK app. The CLI 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.
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Forks
4.7K+79
Open issues
2.9K+92
Compared with peers in Cloud
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| aws/aws-cdk | 12.9K | +0 | 65 | 4 days ago |
| infracost/infracost | 12.6K | +0 | 59 | 16 days ago |
| Netflix/metaflow | 10.3K | +0 | 75 | 40 days ago |
| awslabs/mcp | 9.8K | +0 | 75 | today |
| 2FastLabs/agent-squad | 7.8K | +0 | 75 | 18 days ago |
| kubernetes-sigs/headlamp | 7.4K | +0 | 75 | 53 days ago |
| Category median | 9.8K | +0 | 75 | — |
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