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Category: AWS Cloud Development Kit

How CloudFormation express mode accelerates your development cycle

How CloudFormation express mode accelerates your development cycle

AWS CloudFormation helps you model and provision cloud infrastructure as code using JSON or YAML templates, or through tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). Whether you create stacks directly, use change sets for preview, or deploy through CI/CD pipelines and AI agents, the speed of your deployment […]

Ship infrastructure faster with CloudFormation and CDK deployment validation

Ship infrastructure faster with CloudFormation and CDK pre-deployment validation on every stack operation

AWS CloudFormation helps you model and provision cloud infrastructure as code using JSON or YAML templates, or through tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Whether you create stacks directly, use change sets for preview, or deploy through CI/CD pipelines and AI agents, fast feedback on template errors is critical to development velocity. Previously, […]

Announcing AWS CDK Mixins: Composable Abstractions for AWS Resources

Announcing AWS CDK Mixins: Composable Abstractions for AWS Resources

We are excited to announce CDK Mixins, a feature of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that fundamentally changes how you compose and reuse infrastructure abstractions. In this post, you will learn how to use CDK Mixins to apply sophisticated features to any construct – whether L1, L2, or custom – without being locked into […]

Simplify cross-account and cross-Region stack output references with AWS CloudFormation and CDK’s new Fn::GetStackOutput

AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code. CloudFormation templates can be written directly in JSON or YAML, or they can be generated by tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Resources are created and managed by CloudFormation as units called Stacks. Managing infrastructure across multiple AWS […]

Streamlining Cloud Compliance at GoDaddy Using CDK Aspects

This is a guest post written by Jasdeep Singh Bhalla from GoDaddy. AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Aspects are a powerful mechanism that allows you to apply organization-wide policies, like security rules, tagging standards, and compliance requirements across your entire infrastructure as code. By implementing the Visitor pattern, Aspects can inspect and modify every construct […]

Standardizing construct properties with AWS CDK Property Injection

Standardizing construct properties with AWS CDK Property Injection

Standardizing CDK construct properties across a large organization requires repetitive manual effort that scales poorly as teams and repositories grow. Development teams working with AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) must apply the same configuration properties across similar resources to meet security, compliance, and operational standards but manual configuration leads to drift, maintenance burden, and […]

Choosing between Amazon ECS Blue/Green Native or AWS CodeDeploy in AWS CDK

March 2026: This post has been updated to reflect that Amazon ECS now supports canary and linear deployment strategies natively as of October 2025. The recommendation has been updated accordingly to reflect ECS-native as the default choice for new deployments. Blue/green deployments on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) have long been a go-to pattern […]

AWS CloudFormation 2025 Year in review

AWS CloudFormation 2025 Year In Review

AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directly in JSON or YAML, or using programming languages like Python, Java, and TypeScript with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), CloudFormation and CDK provide the flexibility you need. For organizations adopting multi-account strategies, CloudFormation […]

Introducing the AWS Infrastructure as Code MCP Server: AI-Powered CDK and CloudFormation Assistance

Introducing the AWS Infrastructure as Code MCP Server: AI-Powered CDK and CloudFormation Assistance

Streamline your AWS infrastructure development with AI-powered documentation search, validation, and troubleshooting Introduction Today, we’re excited to introduce the AWS Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) MCP Server, a new tool that bridges the gap between AI assistants and your AWS infrastructure development workflow. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), this server enables AI assistants like Kiro CLI, […]

CloudFormation Deployment validation feature

Accelerate infrastructure development with CloudFormation pre-deployment validation and simplified troubleshooting

AWS CloudFormation makes it easy to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code. CloudFormation templates can be written directly in JSON or YAML, or they can be generated by tools like the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). Resources are created and managed by CloudFormation as units called Stacks. Additionally, change set enable you […]