Chapter 10. Working with Third-Party CDK Constructs
Sometimes you need to use a CDK construct that is not available in the AWS Construct Library. You might be working with an open source construct or a construct published by somebody in your company, or you might be testing out a construct in development. In this chapter, you will learn how to use constructs available on GitHub and available via npm. You will round out your Project 1 web application by adding an Amplify Web Application frontend and adding a retrieval-augmented generation chatbot that uses a combination of search and a large language model to generate summaries of energy usage and some recommendations for how to save energy and money.
Both of these resources are available as CDK constructs on GitHub and npm, one published by AWS (disclosure: our team worked on this, but it’s free and open source) and another published for this project. You will learn how to use these constructs in your CDK project and how to modify them to suit your needs.
Project Architecture: Extend Functionality of CDK Constructs
In this project segment, you will extend the functionality of two existing CDK constructs to create a custom Lambda configuration and a custom S3 bucket configuration. Figure 10-1 shows how you start using other CDK constructs to augment things you have made yourself.
Figure 10-1. We don’t always have to create our ...
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