Streamlining Cloud Compliance at GoDaddy Using CDK Aspects | Amazon Web Services

This is a guest post written by Jasdeep Singh Bhalla from GoDaddy.

AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Aspects are a powerful mechanism that allows you to apply organization-wide policies, like security rules, tagging standards, and compliance requirements across your entire infrastructure as code. By implementing the Visitor pattern, Aspects can inspect and modify every construct in your CDK application before it’s synthesized into AWS CloudFormation templates, enabling you to enforce organizational standards automatically at build time.

At GoDaddy, we’ve used CDK Aspects to transform how we enforce compliance across our massive AWS footprint. Our Cloud Governance team is responsible for ensuring every AWS resource deployed across thousands of accounts adheres to strict security, compliance, and operational standards.

We have a simple goal:

Make it easy for developers to do the right thing without slowing them down.

Traditionally, we…