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CDK Nag: Security and Compliance Testing for AWS CDK Infrastructure

Writing CDK constructs that deploy working infrastructure is the easy part. Writing CDK constructs that deploy secure infrastructure — that's where teams struggle. CDK Nag is a static analysis tool that checks your CDK stacks against security and compliance rules before a single resource is deployed. This post covers

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AWS CDK Integration Testing with integ-tests-alpha: Real Deployment Assertions

CDK unit tests with assertions.Template are fast and require no AWS account — but they only verify the CloudFormation template you generate, not what AWS actually creates. Integration tests deploy real stacks, make real API calls, and assert on real cloud state. The @aws-cdk/integ-tests-alpha library is

Testing

CDK Testing with Jest: AWS CDK and CDKTF Test Strategies

AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) lets you define AWS infrastructure with TypeScript, Python, Java, or Go. Because CDK produces CloudFormation templates, testing means asserting on the generated template — and CDK provides a first-class testing library for exactly this. CDK Testing Philosophy CDK tests don't deploy real infrastructure