does anyone know whether the deployment time for a cloudfront distribution can be reduced? often i find that every other stack resource deploys in <2 minutes but deployment time for a CF dist is often 10 minutes or longer.

Its not Pulumi, thats AWS.

right but is there an option to have pulumi not wait for the full cf distribution to complete before returning, with the tradeoff being that the caller then has to be aware that the full CF deployment can take longer.

@little-soccer-5693, check this property waitForDeployment: false:

If enabled, the resource will wait for the distribution status to change from

InProgress

to

Deployed

. Setting this to`false` will skip the process. Default:

true

.

@busy-magazine-48939 bingo! thank you!