I am getting an 403 error when trying to use AWS Elastic Transcoder on my test site and I can’t seem to figure out where the problem lies. I have checked in my IAM policies and identity pools etc. to no avail.
The error:
GET https:// elastictranscoder.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/2012-09-25/pipelines/xxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx 403 (Forbidden) index.html:xxx AccessDeniedException: User: arn:aws:sts::xxxxxxxxxxxx:assumed-role/Cognito_Unauth_Role/CognitoIdentityCredentials is not authorized to perform: elastictranscoder:CreateJob on resource: arn:aws:elastictranscoder:us-east-1: xxxxxxxxxxxxx:pipeline/xxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxx
AWS.config.region = ‘xx - xxx - x’; // Region
AWS.config.credentials = new AWS.CognitoIdentityCredentials({
IdentityPoolId: "xx-xxx-x:xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxx”,
});
var elastictranscoder = new AWS.ElasticTranscoder();
var button = document.getElementById('button');
button.addEventListener('click', function() {
var params = {
PipelineId: ‘xxxxxxxxxxxxxx’,
/* required */
Input: {
Key: “xxxxxxxxxx / xxxxxxx.xxx”
},
OutputKeyPrefix: ‘xxxxxxx / ‘,
Outputs: [{
Key: ‘xxxx.xxx’,
PresetId: ‘xxxxxxxxxxxx’,
}, ],
};
elastictranscoder.createJob(params, function(err, data) {
if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
else console.log(data); // successful response
});
});
Solution! turns out I didn't know that I needed to include the AWS access key and secret key in the options section of the elastic transcoder constructor.