AWS CDK Developer Guide history - AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) v2

This is the AWS CDK v2 Developer Guide. The older CDK v1 entered maintenance on June 1, 2022 and ended support on June 1, 2023.

AWS CDK Developer Guide history

See Releases for information about AWS CDK releases. The AWS CDK is updated approximately once a week. Maintenance versions may be released between weekly releases to address critical issues. Each release includes a matched AWS CDK Toolkit (CDK CLI), AWS Construct Library, and API Reference. Updates to this Guide generally do not synchronize with AWS CDK releases.

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The table below represents significant documentation milestones. We fix errors and improve content on an ongoing basis.

ChangeDescriptionDate

Add documentation for CDK Migrate feature

Use the AWS CDK CLI cdk migrate command to migrate deployed AWS resources, deployed AWS CloudFormation stacks, and local AWS CloudFormation templates to AWS CDK. For more information, see Migrate to AWS CDK.

February 2, 2024

IAM best practices updates

Updated guide to align with the IAM best practices. For more information, see Security best practices in IAM.

March 23, 2023

Document cdk.json

Add documentation of cdk.json configuration values.

April 20, 2022

Dependency management

Add topic on managing dependencies with the AWS CDK.

April 7, 2022

Remove double-braces from Java examples

Replace this anti-pattern with Java 9 Map.of throughout.

March 9, 2022

AWS CDK v2 release

Version 2 of the AWS CDK Developer Guide is released. Document history for CDK v1.

December 4, 2021