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# AWS CDK Roadmap

The roadmap priorities for the AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) are informed by what we hear from customers and interactions on Github, CDK.dev Slack, Stack Overflow, and Twitter. This document outlines the high level direction we are working towards, and for each project there is a tracking issue where you can leave feedback. We update this doc on a quarterly basis to reflect any changing priorities.
> Updated 6/14/2024
The roadmap priorities for the AWS CDK (Cloud Development Kit) are informed by what we hear from customers and interactions on Github, CDK.dev Slack, Stack Overflow, and Twitter. This document outlines the high level direction we are working towards, and for each project there is a tracking issue where you can leave feedback. We update this doc on a quarterly basis to reflect any changing priorities.

Follow [CDK Live!](https://www.youtube.com/@CDK-Live) and [cdk.dev](https://cdk.dev/) to learn what's new in AWS CDK.

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## Our Core Tenets (which guide prioritization decisions)

* **We empower CDK builders to innovate with confidence, without sacrificing security.** The CDK provides customers with conviction by providing a clear and streamlined direction to building secure, modernized, industry leading innovations with AWS.
* **Productivity through simplicity.** The CDK measurably improves developer productivity in building with AWS. We make Infrastructure as Code simple to define, understand, change, and troubleshoot.
* **Be transparent.** The AWS CDK team’s current work should be easily visible.
* **Listen to customers.** Allow them to participate in design decisions and to vote on and propose new AWS CDK features. We will periodically reprioritize the roadmap based on customer feedback.
- **We empower CDK builders to innovate with confidence, without sacrificing security.** The CDK provides customers with conviction by providing a clear and streamlined direction to building secure, modernized, industry leading innovations with AWS.
- **Productivity through simplicity.** The CDK measurably improves developer productivity in building with AWS. We make Infrastructure as Code simple to define, understand, change, and troubleshoot.
- **Be transparent.** The AWS CDK team’s current work should be easily visible.
- **Listen to customers.** Allow them to participate in design decisions and to vote on and propose new AWS CDK features. We will periodically reprioritize the roadmap based on customer feedback.

## List of Annotations

| Symbol | Description |
| :--- | :----: |
| 🔍 | Exploration |
| 👂🏽 | Waiting for feedback |
| 🚦 | Work ready to begin |
| 🛠️ | Work in progress |
| 🚀 | Released |
| Symbol | Description |
| :----- | :------------------: |
| 🔍 | Exploration |
| 👂🏽 | Waiting for feedback |
| 🚦 | Work ready to begin |
| 🛠️ | Work in progress |
| 🚀 | Released |
| 🚫 | Not on roadmap |

## Themes
Over the course of the last few years, the CDK team has spent time speaking with and learning from its community. We've gathered that there were certain features that were greatly valued from the CDK and other features which would be beneficial to be added to its experience. We appreciate everyone sharing this feedback and we plan on addressing it through the targeted themes and RFCs listed below. Please be aware that the team will periodically work to add RFCs as we look to prioritize more work.

Over the course of the last few years, the CDK team has spent time speaking with and learning from its community. We've gathered that there were certain features that were greatly valued from the CDK and other features which would be beneficial to be added to its experience. We appreciate everyone sharing this feedback and we plan on addressing it through the targeted themes and RFCs listed below. Please be aware that the team will periodically work to add RFCs as we look to prioritize more work.

### L2 Abstractions
It’s clear that constructs are imperative to the CDK experience. We repeatedly hear from CDK builders that the most important improvement that the CDK can make for its construct experience would be to provide greater service coverage. Because of this, the CDK team intends to direct much of its focus towards investigating how we can provide more comprehensive AWS service coverage in the next year. In the past, the CDK has relied on community and in-house authored constructs to address construct demand. In the future, our goal is to bring CDK builders a complete and consistent construct model through largely autogenerated means. This model would provide builders with Day 1 support of AWS services--the moment services are launched--complete with the features that builders love in their L2s. We’ll be investigating this effort in the coming months, and it’s possible that there will be gradual rollouts for us to realize this goal. If you have feedback on what is most important to you while you work with CDK constructs today, we would highly appreciate you sharing this within our [Complete Construct Model RFC](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/611).

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Could you please share what your current thinking is regarding this, considering that you're removed this paragraph from the roadmap? Is the vision to move towards largely autogenerated means of creating L2s still in effect?

The CDK team is committed to supporting our existing library of AWS L2 abstractions. We continue to solicit community feedback on where additional L2 coverage makes it simpler and more efficient to build with AWS. Current L2s that the team’s working on are listed below. Please be aware that this list will update throughout the year. If you have feedback on other L2s that should be prioritized by our team, feel free to submit a separate RFC.
* 🚀 [Enabling IPv6 on Resources and VPCs](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/28366)
* 🔍 [CloudFront Origin Access Control L2](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/491)
* 🔍 [Rewrite EKS L2](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/605) - drop the custom resource implementation in favor of the native L1.


### Speed up development and testing
We've also heard from many CDK builders that there's a desire to see more features which enable builders to iterate within their development loop faster. Over the next year, the team is also making it a goal to provide greater support for testing, debugging and deployment. Apart from the tickets listed below, if you have feedback have related to this goal, please submit it via and RFC and we will work to prioritize it towards this goal.
* 🚀 [Enable CloudFormation builders to migrate existing infrastructure to CDK](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/blob/6004a17c593728e36ad4f5c3dcdd578ff46fa9bb/packages/aws-cdk/README.md#cdk-migrate) - CloudFormation builders can now generate a CDK application using an existing CloudFormation template in JSON or YAML format using cdk migrate!
* 🚀 [Policy Validation at Synth](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/v2/guide/policy-validation-synthesis.html) - Builders can now check their policies immediately after synthesis using CloudFormation Guard or OPA!
* 👂🏽 [Adding more resource support to Hotswap](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/25418) - Apart from Lambda, we are looking into expanding resource support for Hotswap. Please share your feedback in this linked ticket!
* 🔍 [Local application testing](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/585) - We are investigating how to improve CDK testing on builders’ locals. We would love to hear everyone’s feedback here on what they would like to see as part of this experience.
* 🔍 [Upgrade deployment debugging experience](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/583) - We also are looking into providing more debugging support at time of deployment. Please drop a note in this tagged ticket if you have any opinions related to this experience!
* 🚀 [Secure CDK Deployments with IAM Permission Boundaries](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/secure-cdk-deployments-with-iam-permission-boundaries/) - CDK builders can now enact IAM permission boundaries, which help to ensure that all actions are within the overlap of the users permissions and the boundary, and ensure that any IAM entities that are created also have the same boundary applied!
* 👂🏽 [CDK CLI Upgrade](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/300) - We are looking into how to further improve the CLI experience. This includes allowing builders to automate necessary tasks and integrate the CDK into CI/CD pipelines if they desire to. Please share your feedback in this ticket if you have anything you would like noted!
* 👂🏽 [CDK CLI Triggers](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/228) - CLI enhancements are also being considered for post command hooks.

- 🚀 [DynamoDB TableV2 Construct](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/a-new-and-improved-aws-cdk-construct-for-amazon-dynamodb-tables/)
- 🚀 [EKS AccessConfig Construct](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/30016)
- 🛠️ [CloudFront Origin Access Control L2](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/617)
- 🚦️ [VPC Construct with Full Control](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/5927)
- 🔍 [Rewrite EKS L2](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/605)
- 🔍 [Glue Alpha Construct Graduation](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/497)

### Updates/Enhancements

- 🚀 [Lambda Code: New static method to support custom build commands](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/18470)
- 🚀 [API Gateway Rest API: deploy RestApi to an existing stage](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/29486)
- 🚀 [Route53 Alias Record Imports](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/29565)
- 🚀 [Secure CDK Deployments with IAM Permission Boundaries](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/secure-cdk-deployments-with-iam-permission-boundaries/)
- 🛠️ [Upgrade from the AWS SDK V2 to V3](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/29694)
- 🛠️ [Upgrade custom resources for managed lambda runtime from Node18 to Node20](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/29786)

### User Experience
These are items that improve the user experience of the CDK. We strive to make the CDK as efficient and intuitive as possible. If you have other feedback around this area, please submit an RFC to detail your suggestion.
* 🚀 [App Staging Synthesizer for Resource Isolation](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/enhancing-resource-isolation-in-aws-cdk-with-the-app-staging-synthesizer/) - This feature enhances resource isolation and cleanup control by creating separate staging resources for each application
* 👂🏽 [CDK Refactoring](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/162) - We’re looking into providing built-in support for builder refactoring work.
* 🛠️ [Understand deployment progress within CloudFormation](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/586) - This will help builders understand what CloudFormation is doing as deployments are in progress.
* 🔍 [Garbage Collection for Assets](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/64) - Assets which are uploaded to the CDK's S3 bucket and ECR repository are never deleted.

- 🚀 [CDK Migrate](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/announcing-cdk-migrate-a-single-command-to-migrate-to-the-aws-cdk/)
- 🚀 [CDK Watch: Support for Advanced Logging Controls with AWS Lambda](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/29451)
- 🚦️ [Programmatic Access of the AWS CDK CLI](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/300)
- 🚦 [Garbage Collection for Assets](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/64)
- 👂🏽 [CDK Refactoring](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/162)
- 🚫 [Local application testing](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/585)
- 🚫 [Upgrade deployment debugging experience](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/583)
- ️🚫 [Understand deployment progress within CloudFormation](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/586)

### Community contribution call-outs

Thank you to our community members that have contributed to the project. Below are some of the great contributions from the community! We'll continue to update this list as contributions come in, and please feel free to reach out on the cdk.dev slack workspace if you have any questions or feedback.

- 🚀 [EventBridge Pipes Alpha Construct](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/28388) - [Raphael Manke](https://github.com/RaphaelManke)
- 🚀 [CodePipeline support for Git branch and file path based triggers](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/29124) - [Kenta Goto](https://github.com/go-to-k)
- 🚀 [Cloudwatch Synthetics: Update to canary runtime support for NodeJS and Python](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/29132) - [Henry Wilson](https://github.com/wilhen01)
- 🚀 [EFS File System Replication](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/pull/29347) - [
kazuho cryer-shinozuka](https://github.com/badmintoncryer)

## Community Engagement

We would love to hear from you on how the CDK operates today and how it should grow in the future. To report a bug or create a small feature request, please [create an issue here](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/issues/new/choose). If you are seeking to request a change in strategic direction or make a CDK core framework change, please [create a Request for Comments (RFC) ticket here](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk-rfcs/issues/new/choose). If you are ever unsure about where your feature request should live, it is best to follow the first link within the aws-cdk repo.

![image](https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk/assets/142322013/ea006330-caa7-4c00-8eba-8e8fe379ef6b)
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To make the CDK more accessible and easier to understand, we publish educational content like blog posts, videos and workshops. Here are some from AWS.

* [Workshop] [The AWS CDK Workshop](https://cdkworkshop.com/)
* [Workshop] [Extended CDK Workshop](https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/071bbc60-6c1f-47b6-8c66-e84f5dc96b3f/en-US)
* [Workshop] [Automating your workload deployments in AWS Local Zones](https://catalog.workshops.aws/localzone-cdk/en-US)
* [Blogpost] [Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit to provision multicloud resources](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/using-aws-cloudformation-and-aws-cloud-development-kit-to-provision-multicloud-resources/)
* [Blogpost] [CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/cdk-pipelines-continuous-delivery-for-aws-cdk-applications/)
* [Blogpost] [Better together: AWS SAM and AWS CDK](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/better-together-aws-sam-and-aws-cdk/)
* [Videos] [CDK Live!](https://www.youtube.com/@CDK-Live)
* [CDK Day] [Track 1 (English) for CDK Day 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUR5jVBC6c)
* [CDK Day] [Track 2 (English) for CDK Day 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-nSH18gFQk)
* [CDK Day] [Track 3 (Spanish) for CDK Day 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQC-cOXL4M)
* [re:Invent Content] Search through [all content here](https://www.youtube.com/@amazonwebservices)

## 2024 Updates

Stay tuned for more updates for 2024!
- [Blog] [How the PGA Tour speeds up development with the AWS CDK](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/driving-development-forward-how-the-pga-tour-speeds-up-development-with-the-aws-cdk/)
- [Workshop/Livestream] [CDK Workshop Series on CDK Live!](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp1wJE9SAACOLvdtKL2P2Kq_N_AiYIj8N&si=hH14gEVmM_35xivq)
- [Livestream] [Learn how to build and publish AWS CDK Constructs](https://www.youtube.com/live/kUfSoFy4Mgg?si=aDMMacUT3lq6ZeKw)
- [Workshop] [The AWS CDK Workshop](https://cdkworkshop.com/)
- [Workshop] [Extended CDK Workshop](https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/071bbc60-6c1f-47b6-8c66-e84f5dc96b3f/en-US)
- [Workshop] [Automating your workload deployments in AWS Local Zones](https://catalog.workshops.aws/localzone-cdk/en-US)
- [Blogpost] [Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit to provision multicloud resources](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/devops/using-aws-cloudformation-and-aws-cloud-development-kit-to-provision-multicloud-resources/)
- [Blogpost] [CDK Pipelines: Continuous delivery for AWS CDK applications](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/cdk-pipelines-continuous-delivery-for-aws-cdk-applications/)
- [Blogpost] [Better together: AWS SAM and AWS CDK](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/better-together-aws-sam-and-aws-cdk/)
- [Videos] [CDK Live!](https://www.youtube.com/@CDK-Live)
- [CDK Day] [Track 1 (English) for CDK Day 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlUR5jVBC6c)
- [CDK Day] [Track 2 (English) for CDK Day 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-nSH18gFQk)
- [CDK Day] [Track 3 (Spanish) for CDK Day 2023](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQC-cOXL4M)
- [re:Invent Content] Search through [all content here](https://www.youtube.com/@amazonwebservices)

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