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Hmm but I don’t want to recreate the `ComponentResource` that I’m trying to delete

I want to replace the `ComponentResource` (which contains a `route53.Record`) with a new `route53.Record` that conflicts

My new record is dependent on waiting for the old record to finish deleting

so you're not updating the same resource, you're creating a new one?

Yeah, I have a website on S3 in my component resource with a CNAME pointing to that S3 bucket. I want to delete the s3 bucket, the CNAME, etc. and replace it all with a webflow website…

I ended up splitting the deployments into phases, but it just led to more downtime

First commit was to delete the old resource, run the update… wait… then add the new code and run the update

if you're adding a new resource, I think this is the only way

can you update the existing one instead of creating a new one?

For your specific case (moving the dns record), you could use Alias. This will tell pulumi you've moved the code, and it'll run an update as needed instead of a delete + create.

A short guide on this:
<https://www.pulumi.com/blog/cumundi-guest-post/|https://www.pulumi.com/blog/cumundi-guest-post/>

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hmm so the `ComponentResource` is a custom resource I created to set up a Route53/S3/CloudFront http redirect on a TLD. It’s a set of 8 related AWS resources. The new thing I want to create is a single A record

I can’t update the existing resource because it’s buried within my `ComponentResource`