Management and Governance
CoreAWS CDK
Explicit tool for creating and managing AWS resources.
Key points
- CDK defines infrastructure in code and synthesizes CloudFormation artifacts whose stack lifecycle still applies.
Best-known use cases
- D1.1, D1.2, and D3.1: generate the intended CloudFormation change from a CDK application and troubleshoot the resulting stack evidence.
What candidates often confuse it with
- CDK authors and synthesizes infrastructure definitions; CloudFormation executes and records the stack lifecycle.
Key takeaway
A CDK deployment still requires review of the synthesized change, execution permissions, stack events, and rollback.
Related services
- AWS Auto Scaling
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS CloudTrail
Relevant exam tasks
- D1.1 — Task 1.1: Implement metrics, alarms, and filters by using AWS monitoring and logging services.
- 1.1.1 — Use AWS services (for example, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus) to configure monitoring and logging for workloads (for example, serverless, compute, AI).
- D1.2 — Task 1.2: Identify and remediate issues by using monitoring and availability metrics.
- 1.2.1 — Analyze performance metrics and automate remediation strategies by using AWS services and functionality (for example, CloudWatch, Lambda, AWS Systems Manager, CloudTrail, Kiro, AWS DevOps Agent).
- D3.1 — Task 3.1: Provision and maintain cloud resources.
- 3.1.1 — Create and manage AMIs and container images (for example, EC2 Image Builder).