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Hello @mysterious-exabyte-66602, the difference between these are subtle: •

pulumi_aws

is a Pulumi package offering the individual resources which can be set up on AWS.

pulumi_aws.iam

is the IAM module from this same package focussed on IAM resources. Most often these are named "providers". • Packages like

pulumi_awsx

and

pulumi_aws_iam

offer Pulumi components. Components are compositions of individual resources, but they are distributed similarly to "providers". More info can be found in the introduction blog article on Pulumi Packages and multi-language components.