The AWS Cloud Development Kit is an infrastructure-as-code framework that enables developers to define and provision cloud resources using familiar programming languages. By utilizing construct-based synthesis, it translates high-level, object-oriented code into declarative templates, allowing for the automated management of complex cloud environments through a centralized, code-driven control plane.
The framework distinguishes itself through its ability to model infrastructure as a dependency-aware resource graph, ensuring that components are provisioned and updated in the correct order. It employs a language-agnostic intermediate representation to synthesize these definitions into platform-specific configurations, while supporting aspect-oriented policy injection to apply security and compliance rules across infrastructure definitions during the synthesis phase.
Beyond core provisioning, the project provides a modular component registry for distributing and reusing pre-configured infrastructure building blocks. It supports multi-account orchestration, allowing for the deployment of consistent resource sets across different regions and accounts from a single template, and includes capabilities for detecting infrastructure drift to ensure deployed environments remain aligned with their defined state.
The project is distributed as a software development kit, providing programmatic interfaces to manage the full lifecycle of cloud resources and integrate infrastructure definitions directly into application codebases.
