Infrastructure as code · RankedAWS CDK
AWS CDK is an infrastructure as code tool from AWS that lets developers define AWS infrastructure in high-level programming languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python and Java · aws.amazon.com ↗
Why models recommend it
“If you are 100% on AWS, AWS CDK allows your developers to write IaC in TypeScript, Python, or Go for $0 in tooling costs.”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“only when the company is firmly AWS-only and values native AWS integration over multi-cloud portability”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · alternative
“If you are AWS-only, AWS CloudFormation / AWS SAM / AWS CDK are native and have no IaC tool charge”Muse Glimmer 30B · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“Pulumi/AWS CDK | ✅ Modern choice | Real programming languages, better abstractions”Kimi K2 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Only recommend this if your company is 100% committed to the AWS ecosystem ... this risk might be too high”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
“can be strong choices inside one cloud, but they do not port well across providers”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning
“Excellent but AWS-only — limiting if you ever want multi-cloud flexibility”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Direct question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as AWS CDK, over the 112 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 106 | 10 | View → | |
| 105 | 76 | View → | |
| 86 | 45 | View → | |
| 83 | 0 | View → | |
| 62 | 2 | View → | |
| 60 | 0 | View → | |
| 45 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 0 | View → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 22 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of AWS CDK →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on AWS CDK's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- developers
- Customers named
- Thomson Reuters
- Also from AWS
- AWS ACM, AWS ALB/ELB, AWS ALB/NLB, AWS API Gateway HTTP APIs, AWS Amazon Aurora, AWS App Runner and 84 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
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Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 85 of the 112 answers that named AWS CDK and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
212 of the 260 domain citations in answers naming AWS CDK came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |