changelog/v0.17.9.md
pulumi login now supports s3://, azblob:// and gs:// paths (on top of file://) for
storing stack information. These are passed the location of a desired bucket for each respective
cloud provider (i.e. pulumi login s3://mybucket). Pulumi artifacts (like the
xxx.checkpoint.json file) will then be stored in that bucket. Credentials for accessing the
bucket operate in the normal manner for each cloud provider. i.e. for AWS this can come from the
environment, or your .aws/credentials file, etc.PULUMI_SKIP_UPDATE_CHECK to 1 or true.pulumi new <template> -s <existing-stack>.--json flag (-j for short) to the preview command. This allows basic serialization of a plan,
including the anticipated set of deployment steps, list of diagnostics messages, and summary information.
Each step includes deeply serialized information about the resource state and step metadata itself. This
is part of ongoing work tracked in pulumi/pulumi#2390.