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Probably the first thing I would check is if I can see instances with AWS CLI
```aws ec2 describe-instances```
As it could be, your default region is different and that’s why you are not able to see instances.
You can try to set the region in pulumi.
<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/config/>