Hi all, what is the preferred way to migrate Pulumi resources from the AWS Classic provider to AWS Native provider? I'm running into some issues migrating an IAM role for example. I'm adding the new aws-native provider and added a type alias to

aws:iam/role:Role

like so:

pulumi_aws_native.iam.Role(
  resource_name="role", # unchanged
  role_name="example-role", # unchanged,
  opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions.merge(opts, pulumi.ResourceOptions(aliases=[Alias(type_="aws:iam/role:Role")]))
)

But Pulumi is still trying to replace the resource even though nothing has changed except the provider

The type isn't enough to define the original resource. You'll also need at least the name, and maybe the parent.

The resource I'm talking about is a

ComponentResource

and is used in multiple projects so passing a fixed URN is going to be cumbersome. I'll try passing the original name, parent and type. Thanks!

You almost certainly won't be able to set up an alias inside the code of a ComponentResource that caters for all the places that resource can be constructed. You will probably want to pass the alias, or at least the parent of the parent, into the constructor.

I am curious for your reasons to migrate to native? The "even though nothing has changed except the provider" is a very big assumption, the resources manage the same cloud state but are not designed to be compatible, so I'm expecting what you attempt to be possible but rather difficult especially at scale.