Running AWS polly with cfexecute

Question

I am trying to use AWS Polly inside of ColdFusion.

This works just fine

<cfscript>
cfexecute(
    variable = "standardOutput",
    name = "aws",
    arguments = "polly help",
    timeout = 100
);
</cfscript>

<h3>Results</h3>
<cfoutput><pre>#standardOutput#</pre></cfoutput>

This does not apart

<cfscript>
cfexecute(
    variable = "standardOutput",
    name = "aws",
    arguments = "polly describe-voices",
    timeout = 100
);
</cfscript>

<h3>Results</h3>
<cfoutput><pre>#standardOutput#</pre></cfoutput>

Thoughts

I suspect that cfexecute is running under different credentials than when I type it in on a command prompt. I wondering if I just need to pass in Amazon Web Services credentials somehow.

From my brother, who works with both AWS and CF: I believe you will need to pass UN/PW to your service. — Shawn, Sep 20 '17 at 00:33
Please elaborate on what happens when you run the second code block. — Dan Bracuk, Sep 20 '17 at 15:28
One note from our operations folks who do AMZ - Consider using the Java API rather than CF Execute for Polly. Link: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaSDK/latest/javadoc/com/amazonaws/services/polly/AmazonPollyClient.html — Mark A Kruger, Sep 20 '17 at 16:09
@DanBrucuk : It runs without error, but nothing is loaded into `standardoutput` either. — James A Mohler, Sep 20 '17 at 20:19

James A Mohler · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-12T07:48:19.467

1

A couple of things had to be done to fix this.

I had to go to services and find the account that ColdFusion was running under.
I then had to go to c:\users\service running CF
Then create a folder called .aws
Create a credential file and config file.

And then it runs

Note that this was done on Windows 2016

edited Feb 12 '18 at 07:48

answered Feb 09 '18 at 02:29

James A Mohler

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