Hi all! I want to import an existing S3 bucket into my project. I followed the steps here: https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/adopting/import/#adopting-existing-resources. The import command succeeded and I added the output source to my project file. I then run

pulumi up

and during the preview stage I get the error message “error: Preview failed: unable to delete resource... ...as it is currently marked for protection. To unprotect the resource, either remove the

protect

flag from the resource in your Pulumi program and run

pulumi up

or...“. I don’t want to delete it; I want to adopt it. Can anyone help me understand why preview seems to be trying to delete a protected/imported resource?

The code and state generated by

pulumi import

includes a resource option with

protect=True

(https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/resources/#protect) Your

pulumi up

is trying to delete the bucket for some reason - I wonder if it’s actually trying to replace it (which includes a delete operation). If you do

pulumi preview --diff

what does it show for the bucket?

I get this error: “error: missing required property ‘region’“, but when I run

pulumi config get aws:region

, it returns “us=east-1”

If that’s not a typo, that’s an error in the config file. It should return

us-east-1

oops, it’s a typo. it does return

us-east-1

When you get the missing region error, the error message includes an example on setting the property, can you share that example?

The aws_native provider has it’s own config so you want to

pulumi config set aws-native:region us-east-1

Thank you! It seems obvious now in hindsight, but I didn’t realize the native provider would have its own config. Setting that fixed my issue with the missing region. And since I’m fairly new to Pulumi, I decided to stick with the classic provider for now for the documentation and example advantages. Having removed the native provider, I again tried my adoption of an existing bucket, and all is working as expected. I’ve tried to recreate my original problem (to develop my understanding) and now I can’t get it to fail. 🤦‍♂️ II appreciate your input on all this!

I have written some code to read EC2 and S3 resources from AWS, and output JSON files that can be utilized for

pulumi import -f

. https://github.com/yjiq150/pulumi-aws-resource-scraper