AWS Cassandra Cluster Tutorial 5 (2025): Modern Cassandra Deployment with CDK, EKS, and Infrastructure as Code
Cassandra Cluster Tutorial 5 (2025) - Modern AWS Cassandra Deployment with CDK, EKS, and Infrastructure as Code
This Cassandra tutorial is designed for developers and DevOps/SRE teams who want to deploy production-ready Cassandra clusters in AWS using modern practices and tools available in 2025.
What’s New in 2025
The landscape of deploying Cassandra on AWS has evolved significantly:
- AWS CDK v2 has become the standard for infrastructure as code, offering type-safe infrastructure definitions
- Kubernetes operators like K8ssandra provide production-ready Cassandra deployments
- AWS Graviton3 processors offer 40% better price-performance for Cassandra workloads
- Container-based deployments are now the norm, with EKS Anywhere for hybrid deployments
- Service mesh integration with AWS App Mesh provides advanced traffic management
- AWS Systems Manager replaces bastion hosts for secure access
- GitOps workflows with AWS CodeCommit and FluxCD for infrastructure management
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