
Bob's Used Books demonstrates how to use AWS CDK to provision multiple AWS resources organized into four stacks (Core, Network, Database, and EC2Compute) with cross-stack references for efficient infrastructure deployment and application hosting.


<div><p>This article explains how Bob's Used Books, a .NET sample application, uses AWS CDK to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.</p><ul><li>AWS CDK enables Infrastructure-as-Code for provisioning AWS resources programmatically</li><li>Bob's Used Books organized into four stacks: CoreStack, NetworkStack, DatabaseStack, EC2ComputeStack</li><li>Cross-stack references allow EC2ComputeStack to depend on resources from other stacks automatically</li><li>Application deploys to EC2 instance via UserData scripts and S3 artifact uploads</li><li>Infrastructure includes VPC, S3, CloudFront, Cognito, RDS SQL Server, EC2, and IAM resources</li><li>Stacks can be deployed selectively based on environment needs (development vs production)</li></ul><p>AWS CDK provides .NET developers a familiar way to define cloud infrastructure as code, enabling consistent environment provisioning and simplified resource management.</p></div>


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