[Varriount]

Reading CDK's introduction page, it seems that, similar to CloudFormation, it uses pre-made components, just at a higher level. Those components are then translated into a CloudFormation template[0]. Is that correct?

Might it be more accurate to state that CDK is a higher level version of CloudFormation, that abstracts away unimportant details?

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/

[zoover2020]

Yes, exactly. CDK is the abstraction which compiles down to CloudFormation. You can see CF here as the assembly that gets generated.

[l0b0]

As someone who's used CDK for a few months and never handcoded CF, that sounds completely correct. If you're comfortable with Python, here's a simple but non-trivial architecture you can check out: https://github.com/linz/geospatial-data-lake/blob/master/app....

[zokier]

CDK is essentially CFN template generation tool for TypeScript