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okay, here are the steps I had to go through to get S3 working for a migration from pulumi to S3: -

pulumi stack export --file stack.json

- copy the stack.json to the S3 bucket (manually) -

pulumi logout

&

pulumi login <s3://bucketname>

-

pulumi stack select

- this prompted me to create a passphrase for a new stack it had me create - I was then able to run

pulumi preview

, it found my stack, but it now wants to create all the resources that already exist