What is the AWS Cloud Development Kit?
About the Speaker
Senior Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services
Andy Cowell has over twenty five years of system administration and development experience in a variety of environments. Currently, he works for Amazon Web Services as a Senior Solution Architect working with East Tennessee enterprises. Andy has been responsible for some of the top destinations on the Internet, such as HGTV.com, Dilbert.com, and Metallica.com. In the past, he has worn many hats, from networking admin to full-time developer, and cut his teeth as a "Wizard" with the UTK Computer Science department. Locally, he helps organize ETSA (LOPSA East Tennessee) and KnoxDevs. When not wrangling systems, he solders microcontrollers, plucks strings, paints toy soldiers, drinks bourbon, smokes pipes, and rolls 20s.
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open source project that allows you to create your infrastructure in a major programming language of your choice, such as Python, Java, Javascript, or C#/.Net. This allows you to build and use high level constructs of infrastructure with sensible defaults, package it in reusable modules, and track versions of your architecture as it changes. A single line of code can deploy extremely complex infrastructure changes that have already been reviewed and approved. Come learn the basics of AWS CDK!