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Yes: 

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/troubleshooting/faq/#why-do-resource-names-have-random-hex-character-suffixes|https://www.pulumi.com/docs/troubleshooting/faq/#why-do-resource-names-have-random-hex-character-suffixes>

Ahh, and it can be adjusted on a per-resource basis, excellent! Thanks!

Yes most properties have a name property that you can explicitly set. We also have <https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/1518> tracking work to add more support for configuring names.