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Can you run with

-v --logtostderr --debug

and see if that provides any more information?

Seeing some output that repeats the error as well as what appears to be a lower level Golang stack trace. The most interesting parts:

I0914 15:00:17.640839   20304 eventsink.go:59] RegisterResource RPC prepared: t=azure:core/resourceGroup:ResourceGroup, name=global_resourceI0914 15:00:17.666837   20304 ignore.go:44] Explicitly ignoring and discarding error: 1 error occurred:
5e07 pul* TerminateProcess: Access is denied.  create           /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/syscall/dll_windows.go:80 +0x15e
     Type                       Name                 Plan       Info
 +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack        Project-dev  create     gs      0x2b
     └─ pulumi:providers:azure  default_3_20_1                  error: could not read plugin [C:\Users\dev\.pulumi\plugins\resource-
I0914 15:00:17.679837   20304 ignore.go:44] Explicitly ignoring and discarding error: 1 error occurred:
 +   pulumi:pulumi:Stack        Project-dev  create     60 messages; 41 debugs
     └─ pulumi:providers:azure  default_3_20_1                  1 error

Diagnostics:
  pulumi:providers:azure (default_3_20_1):
    error: could not read plugin [C:\Users\dev\.pulumi\plugins\resource-azure-v3.20.1\pulumi-resource-azure.exe] stdout: EOF

  pulumi:pulumi:Stack (Project-dev):
    [...]

    debug: RegisterResource RPC prepared: t=azure:core/resourceGroup:ResourceGroup, name=global_resource_group

    Exception 0xc0000005 0x0 0x7ff8c9550fff 0x33f90000
    PC=0x33f90000
    syscall.loadsystemlibrary(0xc0003aa160, 0xc000048640, 0xc000048640, 0x20)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/runtime/syscall_windows.go:136 +0xe7
    syscall.LoadDLL(0x4ce1127, 0xb, 0xc0006bfaf0, 0x27, 0x8e90fd0)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/syscall/dll_windows.go:80 +0x15e
    syscall.(*LazyDLL).Load(0xc0000041c0, 0x0, 0x0)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/syscall/dll_windows.go:236 +0xc7
    syscall.(*LazyProc).Find(0xc000095bf0, 0x0, 0x0)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/syscall/dll_windows.go:291 +0xbe
    syscall.(*LazyProc).mustFind(0xc000095bf0)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/syscall/dll_windows.go:309 +0x32
    syscall.(*LazyProc).Addr(0xc000095bf0, 0x1)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/syscall/dll_windows.go:318 +0x32
    syscall.GetUserProfileDirectory(0x2ec, 0xc0000dc000, 0xc0006bfc30, 0xc0000dc000, 0xc22c990)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/syscall/zsyscall_windows.go:1910 +0x38
    syscall.Token.GetUserProfileDirectory(0x2ec, 0xc000046270, 0x2c, 0x0, 0x0)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/syscall/security_windows.go:368 +0x8a
    os/user.current(0x0, 0x0, 0x0)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/os/user/lookup_windows.go:217 +0x1ba
    os/user.Current.func1()
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/os/user/lookup.go:15 +0x29
    sync.(*Once).doSlow(0x8e655e0, 0x4e9c380)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/sync/once.go:66 +0xf3
    sync.(*Once).Do(...)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/sync/once.go:57
    os/user.Current(0xc0002c6060, 0x8, 0x4ccff95)
        /opt/hostedtoolcache/go/1.14.7/x64/src/os/user/lookup.go:15 +0xf9
    <http://github.com/golang/glog.init.1()|github.com/golang/glog.init.1()>
        /home/runner/go/pkg/mod/github.com/golang/glog@v0.0.0-20160126235308-23def4e6c14b/glog_file.go:63 +0x48
    goroutine 6 [select]:
    <http://go.opencensus.io/stats/view.(*worker).start(0xc000091d10)|go.opencensus.io/stats/view.(*worker).start(0xc000091d10)>
        /home/runner/go/pkg/mod/go.opencensus.io@v0.22.3/stats/view/worker.go:154 +0x107
    created by <http://go.opencensus.io/stats/view.init.0|go.opencensus.io/stats/view.init.0>
        /home/runner/go/pkg/mod/go.opencensus.io@v0.22.3/stats/view/worker.go:32 +0x5e
    goroutine 11 [chan receive]:
    <http://github.com/golang/glog.(*loggingT).flushDaemon(0x8e66100)|github.com/golang/glog.(*loggingT).flushDaemon(0x8e66100)>
        /home/runner/go/pkg/mod/github.com/golang/glog@v0.0.0-20160126235308-23def4e6c14b/glog.go:882 +0x92
    created by <http://github.com/golang/glog.init.0|github.com/golang/glog.init.0>
        /home/runner/go/pkg/mod/github.com/golang/glog@v0.0.0-20160126235308-23def4e6c14b/glog.go:410 +0x276
    rax     0x7ff8c615cdc6
    rbx     0x7ff8c615cdc4
    rcx     0x41
    rdi     0xffffffffffbadd11
    rsi     0x0
    rbp     0xc2291e0
    rsp     0xc15f4f0
    r8      0x0
    r9      0x0
    r10     0x0
    r11     0x94b
    r12     0x7ff8c9360000
    r13     0x0
    r14     0x7ff8c615cdc6
    r15     0xc000007a
    rip     0x33f90000
    rflags  0x10206
    cs      0x33
    fs      0x53
    gs      0x2b

Is this a better fit for a GitHub issue?

Yea, a Github issue would be great. Thanks.