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Hi, when creating a ecs cluster using pulumi, the name of the cluster is appended with a random string of numbers. Is there any way to avoid this?

Set the <https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/aws/api-docs/ecs/cluster/#name_nodejs|name> property explicitly

<@U03TV566468> what you see happening is Pulumi’s auto naming.
<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/names/>
Do read about it, because in some cases, it helps you when a resource needs to be replaced. I would advice *against* setting an explicit name.