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We also ran into issues with the CDK, that it errors out if the resource already exists and was not created with the CDK. We end up using Ansible for the DynamoDB. Though Ansible can't deploy to LocalStack. So, it seems that we are still in a world where you have to use a couple different IaC tools depending on the needs.

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What's the use-case for creating resources outside of--but also defining them in--CDK in this case? That's generally an anti-pattern.

It's actually not an anti-pattern. CDK provides many methods (e.g. `StringParameter.valueForStringParameter`) for accessing deployed resources from other stacks, or those deployed by other tools or manually. IaC can get in the way or that, but it's not forbidden, nor discouraged.

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