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How long have you run the program? There's a default timeout of 10, 15 minutes (something like that). You can change it if you need to (e.g. if your container takes a super long time to spin up, or you're building a massive DB cluster): <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/options/customtimeouts/>

The expected behavior is that Pulumi should exit gracefully and give as meaningful an error as the upstream API provides. (For AWS Classic, your mileage may vary - Native _should_ give better error messages because it's a newer backend API.)

Pulumi should never hang forever. If it does, that's a bug. Please submit a GH issue to pulumi/pulumi in GH if this is the case and include a minimal program to reproduce the bug if feasible.

Hope this helps!

Ah, great - that's the piece I was missing.
I was waiting only like 30 seconds, so I will tweak that accordingly for my patience :slightly_smiling_face:

Oh no, you gotta wait a while, and that's not specific to Pulumi - that's just the time the cloud provider takes to provision/delete certain resources.