AWS CDK and CloudFormation “Logical ID” vs. actual resource name

When I started out with CDK I was confused by the ubiquitous id parameter that all CDK resources take. I now realise this is just a handle for identifying resources in the eventual CloudFormation template tree. It is not the name of the actual resource as it exists as eventual AWS infra.

For example:

bucket = s3.Bucket(self,
                   "MyFirstBucket",
                   bucket_name="my-bucket-name",
                   versioned=True)

Here MyFirstBucket is the CloudFormation handle used in the resource tree in CloudFormation AWS console. However, bucket_name sets the actual S3 bucket name; in this example s3://my-bucket-name.