After upgrading to

pulumi-aws-5.5.0

I started getting this error during venv initialization

TypeError: Descriptors cannot not be created directly.
    If this call came from a _pb2.py file, your generated code is out of date and must be regenerated with protoc >= 3.19.0.
    If you cannot immediately regenerate your protos, some other possible workarounds are:
     1. Downgrade the protobuf package to 3.20.x or lower.
     2. Set PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python (but this will use pure-Python parsing and will be much slower).
    More information: <https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/news/2022-05-06#python-updates>

After rolling back to

pulumi-aws-5.4.0

in my project requirements[.]txt it goes away.

A version wasn't properly pinned and an upstream update caused this issue. It should be resolved with the most current version of the pulumi CLI.

Thanks Josh! Seems good now. We figured it was probably fixed by this https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/issues/10064