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Hey! Is it possible to ignore a resource when running `pulumi refresh` ? We want to enable drift detection but we're unable to run `pulumi refresh` on our aws msk resource since we don't allow non acl access

So you don't want to retrieve the actual state from AWS – just preview current declaration against the Pulumi state? Would `--preview-only` be an option?

```--preview-only     Only show a preview of the refresh, but don't perform the refresh itself```

Posted in another thread here: <https://pulumi-community.slack.com/archives/CDE799L1M/p1726145441947699> sorry -- perhaps should have kept it to one thread but I'm having the same issue there when I do `--preview-only`

But I do want to retrieve the actual state from AWS, just not for some specific resources

You can only target resources explicitly via multiple `--target &lt;urn&gt;` but the option of skipping certain ones doesn't seem to be implented yet:
<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/9346>