From Terraform to the AWS CDK: Weighing the Pros and Cons

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that I’m a huge fan of Terraform. HashiCorp’s declarative configuration language has been my go‑to tool for provisioning everything from S3 buckets to complex Kubernetes clusters. Recently, however, I’ve been dabbling with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), which lets you define cloud resources using familiar programming languages like TypeScript, Python and Java. In this post we’ll examine some of the reasons teams consider migrating from Terraform to the CDK and discuss the trade‑offs involved.