AWS CDK Tutorials

A reading list of my AWS CDK (TypeScript) tutorials, roughly in the order I’d suggest tackling them. Each one builds a small, working piece of infrastructure and ends with cdk destroy.

Start here: APIs and backends

1. AWS CDK REST API Tutorial: API Gateway, Lambda and DynamoDB CRUD
2. Secure a REST API with AWS Cognito and CDK
3. SQS + Lambda + DynamoDB with AWS CDK

Workflows and scheduling

• AWS Step Functions with CDK: Build a Serverless Workflow
• Step Functions with AWS CDK: A Pragmatic Way to Build Workflows
• AWS Cron Job with CDK: EventBridge and SNS

Compute and containers

• Launch Windows EC2 Instances on AWS with CDK
• Deploy a Container on AWS Fargate with CDK

Observability and tooling

• CloudWatch Dashboards as Code with AWS CDK
• GitHub Copilot for AWS CDK: Can It Write Your Infrastructure Code?
• Build a Serverless Backend in the AWS Console and Export to CDK or SAM

Prefer Terraform?

The same ideas work with CDK for Terraform. See the CDKTF and Terraform tutorials.