can I import lambdas created outside CDK as CDK resources? I searched a tad but didn’t find anything

Do you mean like this? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cdk/api/v2/docs/aws-cdk-lib.aws_lambda-readme.html#imported-lambdas

Yeah, you can import it as @justindra pointed out. Note that you won’t be able to live debug the imported functions.

thanks! I think that's what I was looking for