IaC AWS CloudFormation Stack Basics

The author explored Infrastructure as Code for the AWS Cloud Resume Challenge and chose AWS CDK over other tools.

They built and deployed a simple public S3 static website stack using the AWS CLI, CDK bootstrap, and cdk deploy.

Along the way, they fixed region and login issues to get the deployment working end to end.

The next step is to expand the stack into the full resume infrastructure, showing how CDK and CloudFormation help automate repeatable, version-controlled deployments.