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+## Pulumi vs. CDK: Better Together {#better-together}
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+While there are differences and similiarities between Pulumi and AWS CDK, they can actually be used together for a more power experience in managing infrastructure. The pulumi-cdk library allows CDK code and constructs to be used directly in Pulumi programs, resulting in AWS resources being deployed and managed via Pulumi. Outputs of resources defined in a Pulumi program can be passed into AWS CDK constructs, and outputs from AWS CDK stacks can be used as inputs to other Pulumi resources. This allows CDK users to be able to use their existing constructs and access all the features of Pulumi Cloud (e.g., policy as code, drift detection, Insights and Copilot).
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 The following table summarizes some additional similarities and differences between Pulumi and CDK, and the sections below the table go into more detail.

 ### Feature Comparisons


Did you double check that all of this content is up to date, as good as it can be, and relevant?

Yes, I wrote this one new. I based it off of the 1.0 CDK launch blog post.

There is one outstanding question I have in the Questions channel about Policy as Code. I think they have released a few things that might give them some of these capabilities

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Have a a few edits for you @aaronkao, also can you fix the rest of the title casings to use use sentence case? I'll leave an approval so you can ship when your ready.

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