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The error "OptInRequired" (The AWS access key ID needs a subscription for the service) with HTTP status code 403 indicates that your AWS account needs to specifically subscribe to the Amazon Transcribe service. This is a common error that occurs when trying to access certain AWS services.
Here are some steps to resolve this issue:
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Make sure your AWS account is fully activated. It appears you've already verified this.
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Check if Amazon Transcribe is available in the regions you're trying to use. You've tested multiple regions, which is good.
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Since you mentioned you created your account only 6 days ago, there might be a delay in service activation for new accounts. AWS sometimes requires new accounts to wait a short period before accessing certain services.
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Verify that your payment method is properly set up. You mentioned having a verified credit card, which should be sufficient.
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For the Free Tier, note that Amazon Transcribe offers 60 minutes free per month for the first 12 months. This should be automatically available to new accounts.
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Try accessing Amazon Transcribe through the AWS CLI or SDK instead of the console to see if you get a different error message that might provide more details.
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Contact AWS Support directly. Since this appears to be an account-specific issue that you've thoroughly troubleshooted, AWS Support would be the best resource to help resolve this subscription requirement error.
The error suggests there's an account-level subscription issue rather than a permissions problem, since you've already tried with both root and IAM accounts with broad permissions.
Sources
Common Errors - Amazon Transcribe
Amazon Transcribe Pricing – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
answered a year ago
I reckon the service is not activated or not allowed by default. Log a support ticket with AWS - and ask them to allow the use of Transcribe.
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Have you got any solution, I am also stuck on this error
I am having the exact same problem. May I ask if you have solved it?
I have same issue how it's solved