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Accelerate your infrastructure deployments by up to 4x with AWS CloudFormation Express mode

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This article announces AWS CloudFormation Express mode, a new deployment mode that accelerates infrastructure deployments by up to 4x for developers and AI tools.

  • Completes deployments when resource configuration is applied, skipping extended stabilization checks
  • Ideal for iterative development workflows and production scenarios comfortable with eventual stabilization
  • Automatically retries dependent resources encountering transient failures during provisioning
  • Example: SQS queue deployment reduces from 64 seconds to 10 seconds; Lambda deletion from 20-30 minutes to 10 seconds
  • Enable via AWS Console, CLI with --deployment-config EXPRESS, AWS CDK with cdk deploy --express, or IaC tools
  • Works with all existing CloudFormation templates, change sets, and nested stacks at no additional cost
  • Available in all AWS commercial Regions

Express mode enables faster infrastructure iteration without requiring template changes, benefiting development cycles and AI-assisted infrastructure development.

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