Hands-On AWS CDK: Building Cloud Native Applications with Infrastructure as Code

by Sam Ward Biddle, Kyle T. Jones

Overview

Looking to accelerate development and build cloud native applications with AWS Cloud Development Kit? Through hands-on projects, you'll learn the basics of AWS CDK, the tool of choice for many of the world's largest technology companies.

Informed by real case studies and years of work with enterprise-scale cloud architectures, this book will benefit both novice and advanced cloud developers. It's complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions to help you build a shareable portfolio of completed projects, demonstrating your ability to build cloud infrastructure at scale.

You'll explore:

• Basic cloud computing concepts, including the AWS Well-Architected Framework
• End-to-end cloud native software and infrastructure as code
• The benefits of a reusable code library to accelerate your projects
• Functional modules of code that can stand alone or build toward an integrated cloud application

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781098158736
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/14/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	258
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Sam Ward Biddle is a Senior Solutions Architect for Power, Utilities, and Renewable Energy for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He specializes in architecting, building, and researching cloud computing solutions for renewable energy, emissions monitoring and measurement, industrial IoT, and embedded systems. Sam works with energy and utilities customers to build cloud solutions with a focus on renewable energy, electrification, decarbonization, and energy transition. In this role, he works directly with customers to architect their applications, build prototypes, and manage solution implementation strategically and tactically. In this role he also serves as the technical lead for two open-source solutions guidance repositories: a decarbonization data solution, and a solution accelerator code repository for energy companies (built as a library of Infrastructure as Code implementations with CDK). In addition, Sam is a contributing developer for open-source projects spanning renewable energy, home energy monitoring, and aerospace. Sam holds a Master of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts in Computational Sociology from Reed College.

Kyle Jones leads solutions architecture for Power, Utilities, and Renewable Energy in North America, for Amazon Web Services (AWS). In his role, he works with leading new energies companies and investor-owned utilities to solve the most complex problems in the energy transition by using the cloud. He specializes in guiding companies through the cloud journey with solutions like the Internet of Things, High-Performance Computing, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. Outside of AWS, he is an adjunct professor of project management and analytics at American University. Kyle is a Project Management Professional (PMI-PMP) and Certified Analytics Professional (INFORMS CAP). He holds a doctorate in systems engineering from George Washington University and a master's in applied economics from Harvard University.