is there any way to do retries or wait between delete and create operations?

it needs to be a custom logic in your code, same story for when the resource was created but not yet available in the API, we've requested this feature over and over in Pulumi but unfortunately AFAIK there is no plan to do add anything more than there is already -> we ended up simply retrying the whole

up

and

cleanup

process for this time, which is a shame