Hey, we are running our full production setup on AWS-CDK without SST currently. We’re very interested into using SST for development, but would not want to touch our production setup. Is there a guide how to / is anyone using SST for development only, but using “pure” aws-cdk for production?

@p0wl While not mentioned in the CDK migration, I think you could do something similar to a partial serverless migration by importing just the resources you need for development / testing and then use SST for function debugging ect. https://docs.serverless-stack.com/migrating/serverless-framework#migrate-only-the-functions

Thanks @Klaus!

@p0wl I just remembered 1 other potential caveat that comes with debugging - in order to allow you the local live reload experience, the

real lambda functions are replaced by a generic stub that forwards the request via web socket

. While this is wonderful for development, it also means you

must recreate any production functions you are debugging

(create a duplicate) before using this approach. Otherwise, the dev machine debugging the code could become a bottle-neck if you are testing during times when the production workflows should be running.