Also, how would you make Pulumi extract that archive before deploying?

This is not supported via

RemoteArchive

today (and would be a bit tricky due to auth/etc.) What are you trying to do with the archive? That may help with what to recommend.

It’s a build artifact from CI that needs to be extracted and uploaded to e.g. CDN edge location as a static website.

<gs://artifacts.example.com/web_1.0.0.zip>

-> CloudFlare static site hosting (or, Google Storage bucket website)