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Hi, quick question regarding S3 bucket creation. I've been creating/destroying the same stack frequently... is there a way when creating a bucket it adds a random string to the end, like cloudformation does? I suppose I could add a random string to the config each time, but was wondering if there was a built-in for this? Thanks,

I think I just need to use *`bucket_prefix`*  instead of `bucket`

If you omit `bucket`, Pulumi will do this for you automatically and use the logical name that you provide as the bucket prefix.

Pulumi's default behavior is to add a random suffix to all resources.

More on that at <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/programming-model/#autonaming>.