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This does seem like a reasonable way to go, at least until Pulumi is adopted more broadly in your org. The S3 backend has a lot more features now than 3 or 4 years ago when I was using it, so it's much easier to recommend. And they've just released the "correct" org/project/stack naming for self-managed backends, so your projects are that little bit easier to migrate to the Pulumi service later.
<https://www.pulumi.com/blog/project-scoped-stacks-in-self-managed-backend/>

You are amazing! Thanks for this resource! I hadn't been able to find much on self-managing the backend.

Thank Justin and Abhinav :slightly_smiling_face: I just relay information!

We create some initial infra using the Pulumi backend, but all big stuff goes into the s3 backend (as for example, there are hundreds of records in Route53).

You can have different Pulumi projects with different backends. Set backend in `Pulumi.yaml` - <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/#logging-into-and-out-of-state-backends>

My dream is to be able to reference stacks that use a different backend too :slightly_smiling_face: