4 ms·CDK is great but because it compiles down to CloudFormation it is slow slow slow.by underbluewaters 5y agoCDK is great but because it compiles down to CloudFormation it is slow slow slow.kennu 5y agoThat's very true. :-( I really don't understand why AWS doesn't optimize the CloudFormation backend. I don't see any reason why it couldn't update resources basically as fast as the APIs allow.philsnow 5y ago... or faster.