Now GA: Up to 20x Faster Pulumi Operations for Everyone

Pulumi Cloud has introduced a major performance enhancement by changing how it manages state, resulting in operations being up to 20 times faster, now enabled by default for all users with Pulumi CLI v3.225.0+. The improvement affects operations like pulumi up, pulumi destroy, and pulumi refresh by replacing the full snapshot method with journaling, which sends only the state of each operation to the cloud, allowing parallel updates if resources are unrelated. Early adopters helped resolve a server-side bug, and journaling has been stable since its January rollout, showing significant improvements in update times, particularly for larger stacks with more than 100 resources. Users need only upgrade their Pulumi CLI, as the enhancement is automatic, although they can opt out if desired.