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AWS CDK setup

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AWS CDK setup

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- Now that we have the software installed on our development box, let's go ahead and set it up. By the way, you're going to notice that I'll be using Python, but you can certainly use the CDK in typescripts or Java if that's your preference. There's also support for C# and JavaScript as well. We need to do some Python-specific setup within the Cloud9 IDE. We'll make sure that Python 3 is selected as the main development language. And we also need to set the Python path which we're going to use for libraries and dependencies. Let's get to it. I'll show you step by step. In order to get started, we're going to create an empty folder. We'll call it demo, and we'll go into it. As you can see, as soon as I create a folder, the file manager here on the left gets updated automatically. Now I'll type cdk init to turn this folder into a CDK application. I also need to specify the language, in this case --language is going…

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