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replace usually happens when the upstream cloud provider API or property is immutable, ie you can't update in place
You can usually see this in the json diff, can you do `pulumi preview -j` ?

yeah i understand how the update strategy is chosen, i just want to know what property i'm incorrectly changing, so the json output totally solves tracking the diff, thanks!