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Hi, what is the best / easiest way to analyze performance problems in pulumi.
I have a small stack deploying AWS SSO and roles and it seems to be taking a lot of time.
I’d like to know what is the problem.
PS we are using selfhosted s3 backend.
```Resources:
    + 2 created
    ~ 1 updated
    3 changes. 168 unchanged

Duration: 1m36s```

I'll check our runs, but some of the AWS SSO APIs are just very slow

Pulumi does a lot of roundtrips between state and the backend. The S3 backend is notoriously slow
If you run with `PULUMI_SKIP_CHECKPOINTS=true` it’ll be much quicker <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/10668>

Yah, I am aware of a lot of round trips - I was wondering if this would be faster without file based backend, are there any public docs on how this works?
I’ve been always wondering what was the reason.

it is a lot faster with the pulumi cloud backend yeah

I was considering implementing my own backend as a side project just for fun