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Hello everyone :wave: A question. Can I use Pulumi without using Pulumi Cloud? I just ran `pulumi new aws-go` and it is asking me to log into pulumi cloud! Does that mean I can't use Pulumi unless I use Pulumi Cloud?

You don't need to use cloud (although it's convenient and does have a free tier) - <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/concepts/state/>

I think you can play around just on local with `pulumi login --local`

For a real project you probably want a remote backend like s3 if you're not going to use Pulumi cloud

Thanks <@U06QVUTNRKQ>. I am starting a real project. How can I tell Pulumi to store state on AWS S3? Is there a way I can tell it so via the CLI?

To be honest I've never done it, so I'm not sure, but I believe you need to do something like `pulumi login s3://{your_bucket}`

I see, so the bucket has to exist already.

If I remember correctly, in CDK, the CDK itself goes and creates the bucket on S3 and store the state there. I was hoping Pulumi would have a similar option

How many stacks can one build in the Individual tier? I can't see that info on their pricing page

I don't think there's a billing-based limit; pricing is primarily based on the total number of resources managed by Pulumi