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This is basically an SDK for their proprietary CloudFormation product, though, right? It’s not like CloudFormation is open source.

there's also cdk-tf (for terraform)

Are they really comparable?

Can you use CDK to deploy to say Azure or GCP ?

If it's limited only to AWS, even if someone offers a better version, Amazon still wins at the end of the day.

Terraform has a took CDKTF thats based off AWS's CDK. Under the hood uses aws/jsii and essentially allows you to use an AWS CDK like interface in other cloud providers.

It's ironic they're banning others from doing this to them.

The incentives are totally different because AWS doesn’t earn any direct revenue from AWS CDK. If someone makes some resold version of it, AWS still makes the same money from the infrastructure created.

Of course. But this means the Hashicorp Cloud is either not technically attractive enough or too expensive if Hashicorp decided to make this move.

Yes. The reason to seize a monopoly is to collect rents that you would not be able to under unrestricted competition.