Having written more CFN than I care to remember CDK is a breath of fresh air. It has a multi-level API that deals with the relationships between resources in a

Having written more CFN than I care to remember CDK is a breath of fresh air. It has a multi-level API that deals with the relationships between resources in a much cleaner way than plain CFN. However, at the lowest level you can still write basically CFN in code. But CDK has so much more. It includes multi-language support, unit testing, compile time checking for errors, etc.