CDK Insights scans your AWS CDK stacks for security misconfigurations, cost waste, and best practice violations π Local-first: your code never leaves your machine β‘ Zero friction: no signup, no API keys, just npx cdk-insights scan π Free forever: 100+ rules, 35+ AWS services, JSON/Table/Markdown output π€ AI explains why issues matter, not just what's wrong π CI/CD ready: GitHub Action with PR comments Ship fast without shipping insecure.
Hey Product Hunt! π
I'm Lee, the maker of CDK Insights. I'm an AWS Community Builder, and I've been building with CDK for years.
The problem I kept seeing: infrastructure would be deployed, then days later, it was found that the S3 bucket was public or an IAM role was over-permissive. Existing tools scan CloudFormation but don't really understand CDK.
So I built something CDK-native. The static analysis is completely free β no trial, no limits. There's a paid AI tier for deeper analysis, but the free version is a real, complete product.
Try it: npx cdk-insights scan
I'd love your feedback on what rules you'd want to see!
Catching this at deploy time rather than after the fact is huge. IaC misconfigurations are one of those things that sit quietly until they don't. Does it handle cross-stack references? Some of the worst S3 exposure issues I've seen come from permissions that look fine in isolation but open up when stacks interact.
About CDK Insights on Product Hunt
βCatch security issues in your AWS CDK before deploymentβ
CDK Insights launched on Product Hunt on April 15th, 2026 and earned 77 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #30 on the daily leaderboard. CDK Insights scans your AWS CDK stacks for security misconfigurations, cost waste, and best practice violations π Local-first: your code never leaves your machine β‘ Zero friction: no signup, no API keys, just npx cdk-insights scan π Free forever: 100+ rules, 35+ AWS services, JSON/Table/Markdown output π€ AI explains why issues matter, not just what's wrong π CI/CD ready: GitHub Action with PR comments Ship fast without shipping insecure.
CDK Insights was featured in SaaS (41.5k followers), Software Engineering (42.3k followers) and Developer Tools (511k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 112k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted CDK Insights?
CDK Insights was hunted by Lee Priest. A βhunterβ on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform β uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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