13 engineers on Hacker News describe using AWS CDK first-hand: 6 endorse it, 2 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Amazon's CDK has hardcoded references to various package manager's lock files, and Bun wasn't one of them”
regret · production · yieldcrv · 2025-12-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It is possible to get around it, but it's ugly, drop to L1 and override logical id”
mixed · production · irjustin · 2024-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“CDK was so much better than terraform (once we moved to CDK from lpt+cfn”
endorse · production · hughesjj · 2024-09-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“CDK is a nightmare to work with.”
regret · production · Centigonal · 2023-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Having worked on complex infra automation using CDK (we use it extensively for our open source project”
endorse · production · shaeqahmed · 2022-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been using CDK too at work (work at Amazon) and I feel like its the future of infrastructure provisioning.”
endorse · production · kevinsundar · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I have been using CDK at work and it is fantastic.”
endorse · production · arman_ashrafian · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“CDK is amazing, we use it in typescript and it's just great, so much easier than raw cloudformation or SAM.”
endorse · production · mxz3000 · 2020-12-31 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Combine it with AWS CDK and you end up with a low boilerplate, auto-completeable environment (with types!)”
endorse · production · 3 yr · abcxjeb284 · 2020-12-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“went from Cloudformation -> CDK -> Terraform -> Pulumi”
neutral · production · here2learnstuff · 2025-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“IMO you should try to keep the code as DSL as possible... if you follow those rules strictly enough, you can still deploy that template in most accounts”
neutral · production · fimbulvetr · 2021-06-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“builds and deploys ephemeral docker, CDK, and terraform based apps”
neutral · production · wjossey · 2021-06-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've also just started learning CDK and Amplify”
neutral · personal · fillipvt · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?