Management
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
- Timenot billed
- Bytesnot billed
- Callsnot billed
In one line
Framework and CLI are free. It compiles down to CloudFormation, which is also free.
This service turns no meters of its own. Read the trap below for what it makes you pay for elsewhere.
What gets missed
cdk bootstrap provisions an S3 bucket, an ECR repository and IAM roles in every account and Region you deploy to. The bucket and any images pushed to it keep billing long after the project goes quiet.
Bills the same way
These services turn exactly the same meters, so what you learn here transfers.