AWS Cloud Development Kit - From Beginner to Professional

Learn to parameterize aws cdk stacks with cdk.json context variables, preserving region, account, and encryption settings, including dev and prod configurations.

Learn how to tag CDK resources like VPC, subnets, and S3 using core.tag.add in the Cloud Development Kit, synthesize and deploy, and apply tags globally across stacks.

Tag all resources in a stack at scale by applying stack-level tags from context in one place, enabling uniform owner and environment tags across VPCs and S3 buckets.

Explore launching an EC2 with a custom instance profile in CDK, attaching SSM agent and S3 read-only policies to enable remote management and log delivery to CloudWatch without SSH keys.

build a highly available web app by configuring an auto scaling group behind an application load balancer using CDK, including listeners, target groups, security groups, and health checks.

Create aws ssm parameters and secrets using the cloud development kit, building simple and hierarchical configurations, secret values, and templated secrets for secure app and database access.

Use the CDK to create IAM users and a group, and auto generate passwords with Secrets Manager. Add users to the group to grant permissions and obtain login URLs.

Create custom IAM roles and policies with CDK, attaching managed and inline policies to groups or users for fine-grained access to Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, and S3.

Learn to create a fully managed SQS FIFO queue with CDK, including encryption with KMS, four-day retention, and a 45-second visibility timeout for reliable microservice communication.

Create and attach CloudWatch log groups to Lambda and other resources with CDK, enabling centralized logging, housekeeping, and deletion when the stack is destroyed using a removal policy.

DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database in the cloud that serves as a multi-master key-value store and document store, ideal for low-latency global applications.

Discover how to grant least privileges to a Lambda function by applying fine-grained access to S3 and DynamoDB with CDK, starting from default permissions and narrowing to a specific table.

Learn to provision an AWS API Gateway as a front for a Lambda function using CDK, enabling stages, throttling, and edge-optimized deployments to reduce latency.

Learn to create custom CloudWatch metrics from Lambda logs, use filter patterns to detect true/false failures, and trigger alarms with SMS notifications to ops teams.

Build a serverless rest api with api gateway, Lambda, and DynamoDB to handle requests, run business logic, and persist user likes end-to-end.

Set up a serverless DynamoDB event processor using DynamoDB streams and a Lambda function to trigger downstream actions and log events in CloudWatch.

Build a containerized microservice architecture on AWS by provisioning a VPC, an ECS cluster, and auto scaling group, then deploy a web service behind Application Load Balancer with CDK constructs.

Run serverless containers with AWS Fargate by building a VPC and an application load balancer. Configure health checks, target groups, and scale tasks across two availability zones.

Design a serverless batch processing architecture with AWS Fargate, scheduled via CloudWatch Events, using CDK to deploy a Fargate cluster and scheduled tasks.

Explore building a serverless, containerized chat application on AWS using CDK, deploying with Fargate, an application load balancer, and scalable container definitions for real-time multi-user chat.