AWS CDK is pretty magical. The whole "constructs" that they have are very powerful. I was able to setup a scale-to-zero RDS Serverless database with an auto sca

AWS CDK is pretty magical. The whole "constructs" that they have are very powerful. I was able to setup a scale-to-zero RDS Serverless database with an auto scaling backend using ECS + Fargate in a few hours. (With zero prior experience with the CDK) You can see that code here if you're curious: https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/lunatrace/bsl/backend-cdk/lib/lunatrace-backend-stack.ts https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/blob/master/lunatrace/... It's more complicated now but if you look at the history of that "backend-cdk" folder then it's simpler a few months ago. The important bit is the "ecs-patterns" library. That's the one that is magical and deals with setting up the load balancer, cluster, etc for you. And the way we shove the Docker images in I found to be quite straightforward. (And deploys are one line)