Create and deploy an S3 bucket with AWS CDK

Lambdas and API Gateways are not the only type of AWS resource we can deploy to AWS cloud using CDK. In fact - nearly every resource that is deployable (is that a word?) with CloudFormation, can also be deployed with AWS CDK.

One of the most popular services on AWS is Amazon S3, which stands for Simple Storage Service.

As the name suggests - it's nothing but simple (in my humble opinion), luckily creating a new S3 bucket and deploying it to the cloud using CDK is relatively straightforward.

Files on S3 are stored in things called "buckets", which are unlimited in size and each bucket has a globally unique name.

In this quick lesson we're going to create and deploy a brand new S3 bucket to AWS with CDK