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What's the Difference Between AWS CDK and AWS Infrastructure Composer?

Compare AWS CDK and AWS Infrastructure Composer side by side — features, pricing, and ideal use cases to help you choose the right product.

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AWS CDK
AWS Infrastructure Composer
Category

Developer Tools, Infrastructure as code

Developer Tools, Visual Builder

Description

Infrastructure-as-code framework to model cloud resources

Visually design and build serverless applications with an interactive canvas.

Best for
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Application scaffolding
  • Reusable constructs
  • Multi-stack deployments
  • Serverless app design
  • Infrastructure visualization
  • Template generation
  • Architecture prototyping
Key features
  • Multiple languages
  • Constructs library
  • CDK Pipelines
  • Asset bundling
  • Testing support
  • Visual canvas
  • SAM/CloudFormation export
  • Real-time sync
  • Resource configuration
  • Template import
Pricing model

No additional charge; pay for resources created

No additional charge

Free tier

Yes

Yes

Expert take

“CDK lets developers define infrastructure in the same language as their application, with IDE autocomplete and type safety. L2 and L3 constructs encode AWS best practices (encryption, logging, least-privilege) by default. CDK Pipelines builds self-mutating CI/CD that deploys both app and infra changes.”
— Gary McLean, re:Post Top Contributor [profile]

“Infrastructure Composer provides a visual canvas for designing CloudFormation and SAM templates. Drag and drop resources to generate IaC without memorizing resource syntax.”
— Oleksii Bebych, re:Post Top Contributor [profile]

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When to use AWS CDK or AWS Infrastructure Composer

Use AWS CDK when:

  • Infrastructure as code
  • Application scaffolding
  • Reusable constructs
  • Multi-stack deployments

Learn more about AWS CDK »

Use AWS Infrastructure Composer when:

  • Serverless app design
  • Infrastructure visualization
  • Template generation
  • Architecture prototyping

Learn more about AWS Infrastructure Composer »

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