hey everyone ive just copied my pulumi state folder from one aws bucket to another and got • 10665 objects • 4.7GB is this normal? how could we clean things up?

do you have Versioning enabled?

no

There's probably a load of history files, check the .pulumi/history folders and the top level .pulumi folder for timestamped file backups

2.5gb could i delete this folder regularly? is there something else i could do to reduce size?

You can delete that folder when your sure you don't need the backups in it. You could also try turning on GZIP compression with the PULUMI_SELF_MANAGED_STATE_GZIP=true environment variable, we should probably default this to true at some point.

You can delete that folder when your sure you don't need the backups in it.

when would that be the case?

PULUMI_SELF_MANAGED_STATE_GZIP

ill try it, thanks!

when would that be the case?

When your sure you don't need the backups. I can't say when that's appropriate for your use case, maybe straight away, maybe never.