AWS CDK Toolkit CLI

The `aws-cdk` package provides the command-line interface (CLI) for the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), a framework enabling developers to define cloud infrastructure using familiar programming languages (TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, Go) and provision it through AWS CloudFormation. As of version 2.1118.4, the CLI operates on CDK applications to synthesize CloudFormation templates, deploy, diff, and manage AWS resources. It maintains a rapid release cadence, often seeing multiple updates daily, with continuous bug fixes and feature enhancements across various underlying CDK modules. A key differentiator is its ability to abstract CloudFormation complexities, offering higher-level constructs and supporting advanced development workflows like `cdk watch` for rapid iteration and `cdk migrate` for importing existing resources. The CLI and the Construct Library (packaged as `aws-cdk-lib`) have independent release cadences since February 2025, though they remain compatible, with the CLI generally supporting Construct Library versions released before or with it.