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awesome-cdk
Training Materials, Samples
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Construct Libraries
APIs
- cdk-chalice - AWS CDK construct for AWS Chalice (Python Serverless Microframework for AWS)
- auto-cdk - Automatically generate api-gateway/lambda integrations with the filesystem (beta)
- crow-api - Create a serverless API with routes based on your file structure
Databases
Static Websites
- cdk-static-website - CDK component that creates a static website using S3, configures CloudFront (CDN) and maps a custom domain via Route53 (DNS)
- ness - CDK powered CLI tool for deploying static sites to your AWS account
Security
- cdk-passwordless - Construct for having passwordless authentication using userpool.
- cdk-iam-generator - Construct to generate IAM Managed Policies and IAM Roles using JSON Configuration.
- c3 - Enables compliancy with privacy and security best practices.
- cdk-iam-floyd - IAM policy statement generator with fluent interface.
- k9-cdk - Construct to generate secure S3 bucket policies easily.
- cdk-cloudfront-authorization - CloudFront with Cognito authentication using Lambda@Edge.
- aws-firewall-factory - Deploy, update, and stage your WAFs while managing them centrally via FMS.
Ops
- cdk-instanceStopRule - CDK component which creates an instance with a CloudWatch rule to stop it at the end of the day.
- cdk-time-bomb - CDK Construct that implodes your AWS CDK Stack after a set amount of time.
Queue
- cdk-tweet-queue - Fills up an SQS queue with tweets from a tweeter search query.
- cdk-ses-template-mailer - Constructs to create AWS SES email templates + microservice to send templated emails with AWS SES.
- cdk-sqs-monitored - SQS Construct with dead letter queue and configured alarms.
CI/CD
Monitoring
Workflows
Multi-accounts setup
- aws-bootstrap-kit - Creates a multi-account set-up with AWS Organization, AWS SSO, DNS, and AWS CodePipeline.
- cdk-organizations - CDK constructs that helps to provision AWS Organization, Organizational Units (OU), Accounts and Policies.
High-Level Frameworks
- punchcard - TypeScript framework to unify infrastructure and runtime code for the CDK, so you can declare constructs and implement runtime logic within the context of one Node.js application.
- aws-cdk-pure - A toolkit to develop purely functional and high-order cloud components with AWS CDK.
- cdk-stepfunctions-patterns - A set of Step Functions high-level resiliency patterns.
- Orkestra - An event-driven alternative to Airflow built on the AWS CDK and Step Functions.
- SST - An open source framework for building serverless applications with CDK. It features a Live Lambda Development environment, to test and debug Lambda functions locally without having to redeploy them.
- Datajob - Build and deploy a serverless data pipeline or machine learning pipeline on AWS with no effort.
Scaffolding
- ReactJS + Cognito + CDK Starter - Starter project for ReactJS + Amazon Cognito + Amazon Amplify Framework with AWS CDK support.
- cra-template-aws-cdk - Create React App template using AWS CDK for out of the box, simple provisioning of serverless React apps.
- create-cdk-app - Create CDK apps from templates.
- awscdk-jsii-template - A GitHub template repository to generate a ready environment to build, test and publish your JSII construct lib for AWS CDK.
Language Support
Library Publishing
Tools
- CDK-Dia - Automatic infrastructure diagrams for AWS CDK.
Related Projects
- jsii - JavaScript interop interface, the technology that CDK uses to create language bindings (currently supports .NET, Java and Python).
- cdk8s - Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming.
- cdktf - Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform.
- cdktg - Agile Threat Modeling as Code.
Tips & Tricks
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Last modified 26 April 2025