cdkd Deploys AWS CDK Stacks 5x Faster Than cdk deploy in Real-World Test

A developer conducted a timed comparison between the standard AWS CDK deployment tool and cdkd, a drop-in replacement built by AWS DevTools Hero Kenta Goto. Unlike cdk deploy, which hands off a CloudFormation template to AWS CloudFormation, cdkd reads the resource dependency graph and fires AWS SDK calls directly and in parallel. Both tools were tested deploying an identical stack — including a VPC, Lambda, SQS, and CloudFront distribution — to the same AWS account in the ap-northeast-1 region. The results showed cdk deploy took 479.3 seconds while cdkd completed the same deployment in 95 seconds, roughly a 5x speedup on 33 real resources. The tool's own documentation labels it as suitable for development and testing only, not production use.
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