Hands-On AWS CDK

Looking to accelerate development and build cloud native applications with AWS Cloud Development Kit? Through hands-on projects, you'll learn the basics of AWS CDK, the tool of choice for many of the world's largest technology companies.
Informed by real case studies and years of work with enterprise-scale cloud architectures, this book will benefit both novice and advanced cloud developers. It's complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts, practical examples, and self-assessment questions to help you build a shareable portfolio of completed projects, demonstrating your ability to build cloud infrastructure at scale.
You'll explore: - Basic cloud computing concepts, including the AWS Well-Architected Framework - End-to-end cloud native software and infrastructure as code - The benefits of a reusable code library to accelerate your projects - Functional modules of code that can stand alone or build toward an integrated cloud application

Sam Ward Biddle is a Senior Solutions Architect for Power, Utilities, and Renewable Energy for Amazon Web Services (AWS). He specializes in architecting, building, and researching cloud computing solutions for renewable energy, emissions monitoring and measurement, industrial IoT, and embedded systems. Sam works with energy and utilities customers to build cloud solutions with a focus on renewable energy, electrification, decarbonization, and energy transition. In this role, he works directly with customers to architect their applications, build prototypes, and manage solution implementation strategically and tactically. In this role he also serves as the technical lead for two open-source solutions guidance repositories: a decarbonization data solution, and a solution accelerator code repository for energy companies (built as a library of Infrastructure as Code implementations with CDK). In addition, Sam is a contributing developer for open-source projects spanning renewable energy, home energy monitoring, and aerospace. Sam holds a Master of Science in Education from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts in Computational Sociology from Reed College.