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It doesn't have to be an issue. You can either have a stack for the umbrella code (incl. GD), or a separate project, or a condition in your project to have that code run for only one stack.

hmm... the GD master account

dependsOn: [myOrg]

so I don't think I can put a conditional around that. Originally, I thought I would have the org creating in one project and then refer to in a separate project for the GD master account... but I wasn't sure how to do

dependsOn

to refer to the org in another stack.

You can't. Can you put those two resources in the same project + stack?

Well, that's what I'm trying to figure out how to do 🙂 I think what I need to do is use an explicit provider for the additional region.

Do you not already do that?

yeah, as shown in my code snippet, not using providers yet. and I haven't had to use them before so this will be the first time.

That is a very useful thing to do, in this situation and lots of others. For example, my project that manages backups has a normal AWS provider (region specific) and AWS provider for remote backups (hard coded to us-west-2 for cost reasons). Each stack has its own normal provider, and that 2nd provider gives access to resources that all stacks can see.

Sounds like a "typical" problem of default providers. Personally, I'd recommend managing all providers yourself. It is a little bit more overhead but way worth it. If you are creating a

ComponentResources

you can use

pulumi.ResourceOptions.merge()

function to merge the

opts

passed in. Then inside the component I

merge

function to override the provider that may have come from

opts

self._config = app_config
        # merge parent options and override with child options
        self._opts = pulumi.ResourceOptions.merge(
            opts,
            pulumi.ResourceOptions(
                parent=self,
                provider=self._config.aws_provider,
            ),
        )

This way I make sure to not use the default provider. Also, make sure that each resource inside component uses

opts=self._opts