We performed a comparison between AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and Codespaces based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Development Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable features of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) are its speed and ease of deployment."
"AWS CDK has notably streamlined the deployment process compared to other methods, primarily by defining cloud infrastructure as code."
"You can use AWS CDK to write code to provision infrastructure."
"The setup process is very straightforward."
"The product allows us to implement feature-related changes or improvements on time. Whenever I write a section of the code or create a new code, it automatically integrates with the former code."
"Codespaces' most valuable feature is the repository, which helps the developers to work together. Its data commands are also useful."
"The most valuable features of the solution are Copilot and Advanced Security."
"They could allow combining multiple languages, such as JavaScript and Python for the platform. At present, we can use only one language."
"There are some issues with different plugins."
"The primary issue we've encountered is pricing. Some customers find the pricing to be somewhat high. Additionally, there's a discrepancy between the promised resource utilization and the actual utilization. The resource utilization calculations don't align with the provided guidelines. So, the pricing and resource utilization calculations could be refined."
"Using AWS CDK requires some knowledge of popular programming languages."
"The technical support could respond faster."
"We get merge conflict errors and need to resolve them."
"The product indicates incorrect statistics."
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AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is ranked 4th in Development Platforms with 4 reviews while Codespaces is ranked 5th in Development Platforms with 3 reviews. AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is rated 8.0, while Codespaces is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) writes "Allows us to streamline the deployment process, but the documentation for technical support needs improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Codespaces writes "Used to integrate into the CI/CD process and streamline the editing and updating of code". AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is most compared with Docker, whereas Codespaces is most compared with AWS Cloud9, Replit, JetBrains IDEs, RStudio and Docker. See our AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) vs. Codespaces report.
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