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A tool claiming "up to 15x faster than cdk deploy" showed up in my feed a while back. Drop-in replacement, it said: keep your CDK app exactly as it is, just swap cdk deploy for cdkd deploy . I've learned to be skeptical of "Nx faster" claims. So I actually deployed something real to AWS with both tools and timed it. Short version: it really is that fast. What cdkd actually is cdkd deploys an existing AWS CDK app without going through CloudFormation. It calls the AWS SDK directly instead. It's built by go-to-k (Kenta Goto), an AWS DevTools Hero and CDK top contributor who also maintains cls3 (a fast S3 bucket emptier) and delstack (for cleaning up stuck CloudFormation/CDK stacks) — tools that quietly fix the annoying parts of working with AWS. cdkd feels like the biggest one yet, and I mean that as a compliment grounded in actually using it, not a throwaway one. The mechanism is straightforward. cdkd runs the exact same CDK synth step as the CDK CLI, producing the same CloudFormation template. What changes is everything after that: instead of handing the template to CloudFormation, cdkd's own engine reads the resource dependency graph ( Ref , Fn::GetAtt ), builds a DAG, and fires AWS SDK / Cloud Control API calls directly, in parallel, as soon as each resource's dependencies are satisfied. Worth saying up front: cdkd calls itself not production-ready, dev/test only. This isn't a "replace CloudFormation in prod" pitch. I actually ran both, on real AWS cdkd's own README backs up the 15x number with a VPC + Lambda + SQS + CloudFront benchmark. So I wrote that same stack as a CDK app and deployed it twice — DeployRaceCfn via cdk deploy , DeployRaceCdkd via cdkd deploy — to the same AWS account, same region (ap-northeast-1). The stack: VPC (2 AZ + NAT Gateway) with a Lambda inside it, fronted by a Function URL CloudFront, origin set to that Function URL SQS + EventSourceMapping + a consumer Lambda First attempt failed. The account had hit its VPC limit (five, the default)

AWS has recently introduced CloudFormation express mode, a deployment option that can reduce infrastructure deployment times by marking stack operations complete once resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for full resource stabilization. By Renato Losio

AWS recently announced CDK Mixins, a new AWS CDK feature that lets developers add reusable capabilities like security, monitoring, and configuration to AWS resources. Mixins work across different construct types, making infrastructure code more flexible and reusable. By Renato Losio