Innovative Thinking Contributing to the AWS Cloud Development Kit The AWS CDK solves an important problem by providing a true software language interface to AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation has limitations that are better solved in a programming language. Infrastructure as code has been around for a few years now, but is AWS CloudFormation really code? How do you share a standard AWS WAF configuration with your company? Written by Intuit Blog Team Published Nov 15, 2018 - [Updated Nov 10, 2022] 1 min read The AWS CDK solves an important problem by providing a true software language interface to AWS CloudFormation. AWS CloudFormation has limitations that are better solved in a programming language. Infrastructure as code has been around for a few years now, but is AWS CloudFormation really code? How do you share a standard AWS WAF configuration with your company? The answer is, you can’t do this well because AWS CloudFormation is more configuration and less code. With the AWS CDK, developers can now: Version and release infrastructure code to the same repositories as application code (Nexus, NPM, PyPi, RubyGems, Artifactory, NuGet, GitHub). Use CDK support for programming languages, so code constructs like functions, inheritance, or conditional flow are no longer an odd notation in YAML or JSON, but are in the actual programming language the developers are using for application code. CDK supports TypeScript, .NET, Java, and JavaScript today. More languages are coming, and expect to see Golang, Python, and Ruby join the list. Reuse and consume CDK components, known as constructs, by using the dependency management tools already native to the developer’s programming language of choice. These features really enable a company to finally compose reusable AWS CloudFormation components that are tailored to the specific business needs of the company. Intuit Principal Engineer, Mike Cowgill shares his takeaways, contributions, and challenges with the AWS CDK on the AWS blog. Previous Post Tech Talk: How AI and Machine Learning Can Help People… Next Post #FutureProof: Blockchain for Trusted Transactions Written by Intuit Blog Team More from Intuit Blog Team Browse Related Articles Social Responsibility Making a global impact Social Responsibility 40 years of powering prosperity: Highlights from Intuit’s 2023 Corporate Responsibility and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report Social Responsibility Intuit’s New Food Truck Program Empowers Underserved Youth with Vital Financial, Technical, and Entrepreneurial Skills Social Responsibility Intuit for Education Innovative Thinking Responsible AI helps small businesses grow and do more. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Building Inclusion: setting a path to success for Latinos in tech Social Responsibility Women in Tech: Why We Need More Innovative Thinking Introducing Intuit Assist News Intuit Responds to U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s Decision And Reaffirms its Commitment to Free Tax Preparation Intuit Experts Best Jobs for Seniors: Part Time Jobs in Tax Preparation and Bookkeeping