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<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/pkg/nodejs/pulumi/pulumi/#CustomResourceOptions-protect>

Thanks, protect was what I was thinking of.

Hmm, once you use protect (even if you turn it off) there is no manual way to remove the resource from the stack is there? Even if it has been removed from the cloud?

`pulumi state unprotect` and `pulumi state delete`