cdkd
The fastest way to deploy AWS CDK.
Drop-in CDK CLI for existing CDK apps — up to 15x faster dev/test deploys via direct AWS SDK calls instead of CloudFormation.
Up to 15x faster deploys
Direct AWS API calls, parallel deploys, and --no-wait — faster than Terraform and CloudFormation Express mode too.
No code changes
Your CDK app runs as-is — just replace cdk deploy with cdkd deploy.
Works alongside CDK CLI
cdkd for dev/test, CloudFormation for staging and production — one CDK app serves both.