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Hands-On AWS CDK
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Hands-On AWS CDK

by Sam Ward Biddle, Kyle T. Jones
April 2025
Intermediate to advanced
258 pages
6h 32m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Overview

Looking to accelerate development and build cloud native applications with AWS Cloud Development Kit? Through hands-on projects, you'll learn the basics of AWS CDK, the tool of choice for many of the world's largest technology companies.

Informed by real case studies and years of work with enterprise-scale cloud architectures, this book will benefit both novice and advanced cloud developers. It's complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions to help you build a shareable portfolio of completed projects, demonstrating your ability to build cloud infrastructure at scale.

You'll explore:

  • Basic cloud computing concepts, including the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • End-to-end cloud native software and infrastructure as code
  • The benefits of a reusable code library to accelerate your projects
  • Functional modules of code that can stand alone or build toward an integrated cloud application
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