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<@U84HBHXS8> is the right person to help you here. Let me give it a shot, however.

I *think* you can use `get` and that, by doing so, it will read the resource from the existing state and leave it be.

```
} else {
    const stackRef = new pulumi.StackReference(...)
    const blob = azure.storage.Blob.get(
        "my-blob-b",
        stackRef.getOutput("zipblob"),
    );
}
```

That said, I had never considered using `StackReference` to reference the current stack being deployed, and I don't know if the read will prevent the delete, so <@U84HBHXS8> should definitely weigh in before I lead you down the wrong path :slightly_smiling_face: