AWS CDK Overview Domain expertise for CDK construct authoring, deployment workflows, compliance, drift, importing resources, safe refactoring, and troubleshooting CDK CLI / CloudFormation errors. When NOT to use: Raw CloudFormation YAML/JSON. SAM. Terraform/Pulumi. CI/CD beyond CDK Pipelines. Use builtin knowledge or specialized skills for these. Critical Warnings Deadly embrace : Removing a cross-stack reference deadlocks deployment. Two-deploy fix required: (1) remove consumer import + add on producer, deploy; (2) remove , deploy again. See troubleshooting-deployment. Construct ID changes c…