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Hi good people! Apologies for the cross-posting but this is a basic question about pulumi that I'm hoping has been addressed before:
I have renamed the resource name (the first argument in a resource constructor) and pulumi up complains with a Error 409 that the resource already exists - what is the best practice on dealing with this? I have already:
1. used an alias
2. used delete_before_replace = True
So I'm not sure why I would still get this issue? Would really love some insight into this!

You can rename with the CLI

<https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/pulumi_state_rename/|https://www.pulumi.com/docs/reference/cli/pulumi_state_rename/>

Though I would have expected an alias to work too

<@UCU9C7W73> Hey I'm using the automation API so no CLI for me

The alias seems to work for 'name' but not 'resource_name' (first constructor in resource)