aws-cdk-examples VS custom-resource-helper

If you are in aws, look at CDK there are modules that make this pretty easy https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples/blob/master/typescript/lambda-cron/index.ts

I am not sure where to post my CDK question. I am trying this project specifically https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples/tree/master/python/existing-vpc-new-ec2-ebs-userdata

There are a ton of other example projects here for the AWS Cloud Development Kit: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples Hope this helps, happy coding!

I am looking at examples of the CDK in python for example https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples/blob/master/python/ec2/instance/app.py

The cdk exple repo is also invaluable. I prefer cdk to terraform because it's actual infrastructure as Code as opposed to templating language as Code. There is fear of vendor lock. But I saw a while back that even hashicorp is working on a cdk implementation

For example, an AWS CDK that describes an infrastructure might look like this: https://github.com/aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples/tree/master/typescript/api-cors-lambda-crud-dynamodb

Also try to use this python library, it is really useful when writing CFn Custom resources https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/custom-resource-helper

One downside of importing values is that you can't delete your stacks due to dependencies. It seems like in this case it would not be a problem as you will always need your networking for any of your other stacks but I've seen a lot of stack updates fail due to being unable to update these resources in the original stack. Another option when CFN doesn't provide native functionality is custom resources, which are just lambda functions. AWS provides a good example for implementation: https://github.com/aws-cloudformation/custom-resource-helper