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.

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