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Help! How do I set DeletionPolicy to Retain for production only?

AWS, CDK, CloudFormation, SAM, Serverless / October 21, 2023

It’s a good practice to use CloudFormation’s DeletionPolicy to protect stateful resources such as DynamoDB tables or RDS databases from accidental deletions. Such as when someone accidentally deletes a CloudFormation stack! As I discussed previously [1], this is a much better way to guard against these accidental data losses than separating stateful and stateless resources …

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No, you don’t need to test every line of your CDK application

AWS, CDK, Programming, Serverless, Testing / September 6, 2023

Several people have asked me about unit testing CDK applications recently. The questions often go something like this: “Because it can be in Python or TS, people bring up unit testing for CDK, whereas it’s not even thought about with Serverless Framework, SAM or Terraform. What are your thoughts on this?” “I have so many …

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Are You Ready for This? Top 5 Earth-Shattering Pros and Cons of AWS CDK

AWS, CDK, Serverless / April 15, 2023

Ask most developers why they like the CDK and they will say “It lets me write infrastructure in my favourite programming language”. That’s nice, but why should that be a consideration for an Infra-as-Code (IaC) tool? That’s like saying “I like Strepsils because it tastes like candy”. ps. if you mention candy, pharmacy staff would …

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