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Published inJun 2023

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Leo Lam

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Technical requirements

You will be able to find the code associated with this book in this GitHub repository: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/AWS-CDK-in-Practice.

This repository is organized into directories for each chapter. This code in this chapter can be found in this directory: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/AWS-CDK-in-Practice/tree/main/chapter-1-getting-started-with-iac-and-aws-cdk.

The code examples provided in this book are written in TypeScript. Cloud Development Kit (CDK) supports JavaScript, Python, Java, and C#. We’re sticking with TypeScript since it’s the best supported of the bunch by the CDK development team, and every feature, doc, or material is first released on TypeScript and then translated into other programming languages.

That said, converting the TypeScript code samples in this book into the programming language of your choice is relatively easy since the framework follows a set of common interface definitions. AWS has a handy guide for you: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/multiple_languages.html.

Do also note that to work with CDK, you will need an AWS account. You can sign up for one here: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup.

For more advanced users, we recommend setting up a different AWS organization for working with CDK while you’re learning the ropes so that your development doesn’t interfere with applications that you might have already spun up in your account. You can find out more about AWS Organizations here: https://aws.amazon.com/organizations/.

We also highly recommend setting AWS billing alarms. We will keep things within the free tier of various services as much as we can in this book and will destroy stacks as soon as we’ve spun them up and interacted with them. But it’s best to be on the safe side and set a spending alarm in case mistakes happen or you forget to destroy stacks. A spending alarm of $10 should do the trick. The following link describes how you can do this: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/monitor_estimated_charges_with_cloudwatch.html.

The Code in Action video for this chapter can be viewed at: https://packt.link/nX11h.

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Authors (2)

Mark Avdi

Mark Avdi is an Engineer, Solutions Architect and currently the CTO of Westpoint Software Solutions. He has gained his invaluable experience through decades of coding programs, designing software, and managing complex cloud infrastructures in multiple industries with different sets of challenges using a variety of solutions. Mark is a technologist; he keeps up with the trends and believes in the power of technology as an ultimate tool to help businesses prosper and tackle problems our world currently faces.
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Leo Lam

Leo Lam is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and the COO of Westpoint Software Solutions. While having detailed knowledge of the vast array of services AWS currently provides, he maintains the close relationship between AWS & Westpoint as partners. Leo comes from a sporting background and uses his experience to effectively integrate the dynamics of sporting philosophy into day-to-day software development to build teams and workflows that constantly deliver.
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