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You can use the pulumi service, or save state locally, or use a cloud-backed backend: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/#deciding-on-a-backend>

<@U01038HJ93R> right but if I want to use the ever-ubiquitous AWS S3 then pulumi offers no native concurrency locking?

ha, sorry.  I'm just frustrated lol.  thanks for the info!

I *think* we actually did add concurrency locking? <@UCWG26BH7> knows more than me.

yep, you need to set the environment variable:
```PULUMI_SELF_MANAGED_STATE_LOCKING=1```
We have an open issue to enable this by default:

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/6536>

there are lots of good reasons to use the pulumi service other than locking, not the least of which is our free tier and it allows us to be a successful company that continues to invest in the product :slightly_smiling_face:

<@UCWG26BH7> yeah I mean that's a fair point; I was just thrown by the "here's all our code; here's our paid service" thing but I totally get it actually.  I'm just in a hurry.  Anyway now's not the right time for my team to use pulumi.  Thanks for the quick response though, genuinely appreciated.