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Does the automation API allow me to control what resources get updated/deleted? Is there any sort of lifecycle hook where I can affect the state of the stack or similar before pulumi performs an update?

Context is trying to work around this Lambda@Edge situation where AWS will not delete the lambda function (in fact, it happens automatically) and pulumi throws an error when trying to update.

I suppose you could use automation API to remove the resource from the state file using stack.export/stack.import, but that's a bit messy.

Alternatively, why not just create the resource via the AWS SDK? It sounds like you don't really want to manage it with a desired state model.

Well I do want it as part of my deployment and I really like the function serialization that pulumi provides

But that is a possible workaround, thank you

we are doing similar thing with `aws:iam:ServiceLinkedRole` , where, before running the `pulumi up`, we just check if the role is there (using the AWS SDK)

once the check is done, `pulumi up` proceeds doing its thing

not sure if this is related to your scenario, but still mentioned it just in case :slightly_smiling_face:

It would be worth opening an issue in the AWS provider. There may be something we can do at a lower level to support this.

I found this, which suggests using `pulumi state delete` to remove the fucntion from the state ... <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-aws/issues/1045>