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Re:AWS CloudFormation Best Practices by Varriount on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:02PM (#26650726)
Reading CDK's introduction page, it seems that, similar to CloudFormation, it uses pre-made components, just at a higher level. Those components are then translated into a CloudFormation template[0]. Is that correct?

Might it be more accurate to state that CDK is a higher level version of CloudFormation, that abstracts away unimportant details?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

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Re:AWS CloudFormation Best Practices by zoover2020 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:21PM (#26650971)
Yes, exactly. CDK is the abstraction which compiles down to CloudFormation. You can see CF here as the assembly that gets generated.
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Best Practices by l0b0 on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:22PM (#26651822)
As someone who's used CDK for a few months and never handcoded CF, that sounds completely correct. If you're comfortable with Python, here's a simple but non-trivial architecture you can check out: https://github.com/linz/geospatial-data-lake/blob/master/app....
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Re:AWS CloudFormation Best Practices by zokier on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @03:11PM (#26651671)
CDK is essentially CFN template generation tool for TypeScript
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