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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

(gentle music) - Hi guys. The AWS Cloud Development Kit, the CDK, is one of those services that you just about need to know a little bit of information for the exam. It doesn't come up very often and, if it does, it might even just be an incorrect answer rather than a correct one. So really, it's just about knowing what it is and, at a very basic level, what it's used for. The CDK gives you a framework for defining your cloud applications using programming languages that your development team might be familiar with. It will provision your resources using AWS CloudFormation. So there's a key point here. You are taking a familiar programming language, for example, Python, TypeScript, Java, and .NET, and you are then using CloudFormation to deploy your resources. Now, as you know from our CloudFormation lessons, the CloudFormation templates are written in YAML or JSON. So maybe your developers aren't familiar with those languages and they want to define their applications using Python…

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