Is it convention to export the VPC object when you have a multi-stack Pulumi setup? Or will that pretty much cause everything inside the VPC to be exported?

It will export the entire object

so doing something like… “export const vpc = new awsx.ec2.Vpc(…);” could cause a very large export?

Not huge

say you create a database, and the database is within the VPC, will the database object also be exported too since the VPC is?

No

ok thanks, just trying to do some debugging for https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/3279

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