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Announcing CDK Migrate: A single command to migrate to the AWS CDK

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This article announces the general availability of CDK Migrate, a tool that allows users to migrate AWS resources from CloudFormation templates, previously deployed stacks, or resources created outside of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) into a new AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) application.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Introduction to CDK Migrate and its benefits for migrating to IaC using the CDK
  • Comparison between CDK Migrate and CDK Import for migrating resources to CDK
  • Walkthrough of using CDK Migrate to migrate a CloudFormation template to a new CDK application
  • Overview of deploying the migrated CDK application using cdk diff and cdk deploy
  • Additional resources for learning more about the CDK


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