AWS Cloud Development Kit - From Beginner to Professional - Introduction: What Is AWS CDK

The video tutorial introduces the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) by Amazon, a new framework for provisioning cloud resources. It discusses the limitations of manual and scripted provisioning methods, such as reproducibility and error handling issues. The video then explores resource provisioning engines like CloudFormation and abstraction tools like Troposphere. CDK is presented as a solution that treats infrastructure as code, offering higher-level constructs and multi-language support. The tutorial concludes with an overview of CDK's compilation and deployment process.

What are the common problems associated with manual resource provisioning in the cloud?

Explain the pitfalls of using a scripted approach for resource provisioning.

What advantages does using a resource provisioning engine like CloudFormation provide?

Describe the challenges faced when using JSON or YAML syntax in CloudFormation.

How does the Cloud Development Kit (CDK) differ from traditional resource provisioning methods?

What are the benefits of using higher-level constructs in CDK?

List the programming languages supported by CDK for writing infrastructure code.