No matter how you like to participate in developer communities, Pulumi wants to meet you there. If you want to meet other Pulumi users to share use-cases and best practices, contribute code or documentation, see us at an event, or just tell a story about something cool you did with Pulumi, you are part of our community.

Pulumi Community

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/intro/concepts/state/#backends>

You only need a pulumi account to use the pulumi state backend

you can use an S3-like object store or local filesystem without a pulumi account