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The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

36 mentions on Hacker News by 31 people: 7 stories, 29 comments · first 2018-07-31 · latest 2025-12-02

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  1. …CDK has hardcoded references to various package manager's lock files, and Bun wasn't one of them https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/31753 This wasn't fixed till the end of 2024 and as you can see, only accidentally merged in but…
    comment by yieldcrv · 2025-12-02 · in Anthropic acquires Bun
  2. …crashing half way though a deployment, because cloudformation runs the actual deployment. [0]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk
    comment by WatchDog · 2025-03-03 · in Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
  3. CDK changing default removalPolicies was obviously problematic years ago: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/12563#issuecomment-771... Another implicit surprise under the hood of CDK
    comment by myroon5 · 2024-11-19 · in I Followed the Official AWS Amplify Guide and Was Charged $1,100
  4. …to dive into Quint's differences and what kinds of models/specifications it excels with. [1] https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/packages/aws-cdk-li...
    comment by chriscbr · 2024-07-31 · in Quint
  5. https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk#at-a-glance is the "generate cloudformation using code," and is the AWS version of troposphere as best I can tell
    comment by mdaniel · 2024-04-30 · in Pyinfra: Automate Infrastructure Using Python
  6. Paradoxically, AWS CDK License is still Apache-licensed: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/main/LICENSE So I lived to see when Amazon's offering is more open than Hashicorp's...
    comment by hdjjhhvvhga · 2023-08-11 · in What HashiCorp’s license change means for our customers
  7. …your application, but where you have fully atomic (not just rollback-able) changes via CloudFormation. [0]github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/new
    comment by indrora · 2022-11-07 · in Does anyone else finds AWS and other Amazon services overly complicated?
  8. …a real glimpse of the future you're describing can be seen with AWS CDK's L2 or higher constructs: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk We already have the tools to have a cloud-scale application dynamically redefining and re-allocating its…
    comment by noobker · 2022-06-01 · in Ask HN: If Kubernetes is the solution, why are there so many DevOps jobs?
  9. …heard of or explored https://github.com/aws/constructs (related: https://github.com/aws/jsii and https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk )? This is what CDK uses for declarative modeling, but gives the opportunity to use languages/tooling that most…
    comment by ghostdog20 · 2022-03-31 · in Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
  10. …that is largely unsolved... One example (linked in the Ars piece) is the AWS Cloud Developer Kit: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/18323 HN History: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateEnd=1641938400&dateRange=custom&...
    comment by mbreese · 2022-01-11 · in Developer sabotages his own apps, then claims Aaron Swartz was murdered
  11. …a lock file which pinned 1.4.0 but while NPM honors that the popular yarn package manager does not: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/18322#issuecomment-100... This floating behavior allowed for it to be overridden locally:…
    comment by acdha · 2022-01-11 · in What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack
  12. …from CDK users – but there’s no definition where it’s not an abuse of trust to sabotage your users. https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/18322
    comment by acdha · 2022-01-10 · in What NPM should do to stop a new colors attack
  13. …or Go) overuse colors with no option to disable them. [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/33206814 [2] https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/18324/files [3] https://no-color.org
    comment by guessmyname · 2022-01-09 · in Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker', breaking thousands of apps
  14. Not saying that you are wrong, but CDK is ready now: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/releases/tag/v1.125.0
    comment by edhzsz · 2021-09-29 · in AWS launches ARM-powered Lambdas
  15. …a look at AWS CDK to manage the AWS resource creation, is much nicer than raw CloudFormation: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/ For my solution to this I've also then got a frontend ontop of my backend to setup view mailboxes, email list per…
    comment by JackGardner · 2021-04-30 · in A serverless email server on AWS using S3 and SES
  16. CDK has `ecs-patterns` https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/tree/master/packages/%40aws-c... I'm a pretty big fan of CDK if you are willing to make cloudformation and AWS your lingua franca. I use it for most of my personal projects, but…
    comment by phamilton · 2021-02-05 · in Native Mac APIs for Go
  17. …It supports "importing" CF templates as-is, so they can be incrementally translated to CDK. [0]: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk
    comment by pqb · 2020-11-22 · in A Month of Terraform
  18. The developer toolchain for the cloud this author is looking for is CDK: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk * Self updating code pipelines? Yep: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/cdk-pipelines-continu... * Cross-cloud compatibility? Yep:…
    comment by deanCommie · 2020-10-15 · in The Developer Experience Gap
  19. https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/
    comment by mcbain · 2020-05-20 · in AWS CloudFormation now supports blue/green deployments for Amazon ECS
  20. …very motivated people working to make getting started and getting going with ECS easier. The CDK ( https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk ) is different but through its higher level constructs it's looking to make it easier to build and compose…
    comment by greyskull · 2020-03-24 · in Bashible: An Ansible-inspired deployment/automation tool written in Bash DSL
  21. In case you haven't seen AWS' answer: https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk
    comment by greyskull · 2020-02-18 · in Running servers and services well is not trivial (2018)
  22. …template - these 2 covers the most important features of serverless that our team uses. [0] https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/tree/v1.18.0/packages/%40aws-...
    comment by snypox · 2019-12-09 · in Serverless Development with Serverless Framework
  23. …of my KPI's is definitely making things more usable. Have you seen the AWS Cloud Development Kit? ( https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk ) It is a more powerful infrastructure as code framework that can docker build, docker push, and run an AWS…
    comment by NathanKP · 2019-08-15 · in How Far Out Is AWS Fargate?
  24. The CDK[0] will hopefully help with the cloudformation story. [0] https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk
    comment by greyskull · 2019-07-28 · in How I use the good parts of AWS
  25. AWS CDK: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk
    comment by cle · 2019-04-13 · in Infrastructure as Code, Part One
  26. That exists for AWS: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk
    comment by FakeComments · 2019-04-08 · in Show HN: RealtimeApp – Deploy a realtime app using serverless components
  27. …YAML being terrible is well known, to the point that AWS did precisely what that person suggested. https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk They are in the process of releasing a kit to define your infrastructure programmatically, and let them…
    comment by FakeComments · 2019-04-08 · in Show HN: RealtimeApp – Deploy a realtime app using serverless components
  28. …more simple and intuitive way to define cloud infrastructure as code in your favorite languages: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk For context I've been able to take thousands of lines of CloudFormation YAML and replace it with around 500…
    comment by NathanKP · 2019-03-01 · in Amazon Web Services CEO: We’re a $30b revenue business in the ‘early stages’
  29. Hi, is Pulumi an generalized AWS CDK( https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk/blob/master/examples/cdk-... )? Looks pretty similar :D
    comment by W1ndRunner · 2019-02-08 · in Why are we templating YAML?