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Hello, I wonder if `await` can be used in typescript.
How do you use something like `aws.iam.User.get` which returns a promise without await in your `index.ts` ?

I don't normally see `await` in pulumi examples. What you do see is `&lt;resource&gt;.apply()` that returns a `pulumi.Output&lt;T&gt;` that the pulumi SDK knows will _eventually_ be filled and everything that depends on the Output will wait for its fulfillment.

Basically, you need to build a long graph of dependent functions that will eventually be executed. Most of the pulumi SDK resources understand how to deal with a `pulumi.Output&lt;T&gt;`.

another option is to put anything you want to await in an async function and just call that function in `index.ts`

<https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/typescript-3-8.html#top-level-await|top-level awaits are also available in Typescript> if you have the right tsconfig, though i haven't tried this before with Pulumi

<https://pulumi-community.slack.com/archives/CRVK66N5U/p1614877794010800?thread_ts=1614875931.009700&amp;cid=CRVK66N5U> shows how to do this as well.

Most resources take pulumi.Input for their parameters, which is a union type that includes Promise. So you can pass a Promise directly in an argument.

If you need to pass a thing in a Promise, I think you can wrap the Promise in an Output (using the `pulumi.output` function) then Pulumi will lift properties out of the Output as you need them.

But.. doesn't `aws.iam.User.get()` return a _User_? Not a Promise...