AWS Cloud Development Kit - From Beginner to Professional - Import Pre-Existing CloudFormation Templates into CDK

The video tutorial demonstrates how to import existing CloudFormation templates into AWS CDK stacks. It covers setting up a project, reading JSON templates, handling errors, building stacks, and deploying them. The tutorial also shows how to verify the deployment in AWS CloudFormation, ensuring resources like S3 buckets and SSM parameters are correctly imported and utilized.

What is the purpose of importing an existing cloud formation template into a CDK stack?

Describe the resources that the sample template is going to create.

Explain the process of how the JSON template is read into the CDK stack.

What precautions does the teacher suggest when reading a file in Python?

How can you retrieve the ARN of the encrypted bucket resource in the stack?

What command can be used to check the differences before deploying the stack?

What should you do if you encounter problems while following the tutorial?