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generally those class.get() methods take a provider ID

so in azure you'd pass the full azure resource id e.g. /subscription/{blah}/resourceGroup/blah/type/name

<@UCU9C7W73> yeah, that just gets me the outputs, though... which are strings (like ARN/URN/Etc). Trying to map that back into an actual `IAM.Role`

Unless I can output a whole resource object.... I assumed I could not

i've not used it, but as i understand it you can and it will know how to do it

All you should need is the URN, right? To consume it in another resource?

`aws.iam.Role.get` takes two parameters. The first is the logical name you want to use to track this resource in their stack. The second is the cloud provider `id` which is just the “friendly name” of the Role in AWS. 


<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/nodejs/pulumi/aws/iam/#Role>

You are right that if you need a true instance of `Role` in your other stack, you should export the id from one stack, use StackReference to retrieve it in another and `get` to populate a full Role instance from it. 

<@UB3BGTV63> that got it working, thank you. Followup question, do you know if there's any way to speed up StackReferences when doing `preview` or `up`? It seems to take a _long_ time to grab the IAM Role (I assume it is making API calls to AWS/Pulumi)