AWS CDK Construct Snippets for VS Code
This extension adds L1 Construct snippets from AWS CDK in Visual Studio Code.
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We eliminate AWS complexity so you ship faster, spend less, and stay compliant.
Our managed AWS service gives you three things: a production-grade AWS CDK Landing Zone with built-in compliance controls, proactive monitoring that stops cost waste and security drift, and senior AWS expertise that speeds up your team's delivery.
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AWS starts simple. Then you scale: production and staging blur together, resources multiply without owners, IAM policies accumulate exceptions, security findings pile up in backlogs, and the bill climbs month after month.
Those are symptoms of a missing AWS foundation. Without one, your developers spend more time fixing problems than shipping features.
We provide that foundation and own it entirely, so your team focuses on shipping, not firefighting.
Here's what's included:
1. We Provision a Secure AWS CDK Landing Zone That Accelerates Compliance
2. We Monitor Proactively to Stop Cost Waste and Security Drift
- Quarterly cost reviews catch unattached volumes, oversized instances, and orphaned resources before they compound. AWS spend drops 20-30% on average, with outliers hitting 60+%
- Continuous security monitoring across all accounts catches misconfigurations immediately. You get alerts while issues are still fixable, not after they're breaches
3. We Provide Senior AWS Expertise That Speeds Up Delivery
- Your developers get production-ready IaC templates for common patterns: multi-AZ applications, event-driven architectures, secure data pipelines. What takes weeks of research ships in hours
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"We achieved a perfect security score in days, not months."
Galen Simmons, CEO of Accolade (Y Combinator startup)
New in version 2!
- Added support for L1 constructs snippets in AWS CDK Python! Open up a CDK Python project and type
l1 to trigger the L1 construct autocomplete.
Features
- Comprehensive Support: Seamlessly integrates all CloudFormation resources as L1 constructs within CDK, ensuring you have access to the latest AWS offerings.
- Effortless Autocomplete: Activate autocomplete with
l1-<cloudformation-resource> to streamline your coding process.
- Weekly Updates: Construct snippets are refreshed weekly in line with AWS's updates to their CloudFormation Resource Specification, keeping you on the cutting edge.
- Placeholder Support: Navigate efficiently through resource properties using the
Tab key, thanks to built-in placeholder functionality.
- Required Property Highlighting: Easily identify mandatory properties, highlighted with a
// required comment for your convenience.
- Documentation at Your Fingertips: Access the corresponding CDK resource documentation directly from the autocomplete prompt, enriching your development experience.
Usage
- Install the CDK Snippets extension in VS Code.
- Open your CDK project (TypeScript or Python).
- Add L1 constructs using their short prefix (e.g.
l1-s3-bucket for s3.CfnBucket).
Example:
Note: Once you start typing a prefix (explained in step 3), the corresponding snippet shows up in the dropdown menu. If this doesn't happen automatically, press ctrl + space to invoke IntelliSense and search for the prefix of the resource type that you want to add (as listed in step 3).
AWS CDK Examples
Explore our AWS CDK Examples repository - a rich collection of TypeScript-based solutions that bring your cloud architecture to life. Crafted by a seasoned AWS professional.
Support
If you have a feature request or an issue, please let me know on Github
Author
Danny Steenman
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