diff --git a/cmd/common.go b/cmd/common.go
index ab9160601..dbda8a226 100644
--- a/cmd/common.go
+++ b/cmd/common.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"reflect"
 	"sort"
+	"time"
 
 	"github.com/blang/semver/v4"
 	"github.com/kong/deck/cprint"
@@ -206,6 +207,8 @@ func syncMain(ctx context.Context, filenames []string, dry bool, parallelism,
 			if err != nil {
 				return err
 			}
+			// make sure the DB is updated and ready to receive new workspace queries.
+			time.Sleep(time.Duration(syncCmdDBWSUpdateDelay) * time.Second)
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/cmd/sync.go b/cmd/sync.go
index 9c91bc40c..3e088b5dc 100644
--- a/cmd/sync.go
+++ b/cmd/sync.go
@@ -7,9 +7,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	syncCmdParallelism   int
-	syncCmdDBUpdateDelay int
-	syncWorkspace        string
+	syncCmdParallelism     int
+	syncCmdDBUpdateDelay   int
+	syncCmdDBWSUpdateDelay int
+	syncWorkspace          string
 )
 
 // newSyncCmd represents the sync command
@@ -58,6 +59,9 @@ to get Kong's state in sync with the input state.`,
 		0, "artificial delay (in seconds) that is injected between insert operations \n"+
 			"for related entities (usually for Cassandra deployments).\n"+
 			"See `db_update_propagation` in kong.conf.")
+	syncCmd.Flags().IntVar(&syncCmdDBWSUpdateDelay, "db-workspace-update-propagation-delay",
+		0, "artificial delay (in seconds) that is injected between new workspaces creation \n"+
+			"and all the remaining operations.")
 	syncCmd.Flags().BoolVar(&dumpConfig.SkipCACerts, "skip-ca-certificates",
 		false, "do not sync CA certificates.")
 	addSilenceEventsFlag(syncCmd.Flags())