New action: aws_transcribe_start_transcription_job

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Description

This PR adds the aws_transcribe_start_transcription_job action, which enables imperative starting of Amazon Transcribe transcription jobs within Terraform workflows. The action accepts a media file URI from S3 and transcription job configuration (language code or automatic language detection), starts the transcription job via the AWS API, and waits for it to reach "IN_PROGRESS" or "COMPLETED" status before returning. This allows users to trigger transcription jobs as part of their infrastructure deployments, such as processing uploaded audio files or integrating transcription into CI/CD pipelines, while maintaining Terraform's declarative approach for the underlying infrastructure resources.

Relations

Depends #44465

Relates:

• New action: aws_ec2_stop_instance #43700
• New action: aws_cloudfront_create_invalidation #43955
• New action: aws_lambda_invoke #43972
• New action: aws_ses_send_email #44214
• New action: aws_sns_publish #44232
• New action: aws_codebuild_start_build #44444
• New action: aws_transcribe_start_transcription_job #44445
• New action: aws_sfn_start_execution #44464

References

Output from Acceptance Testing

2025/09/24 21:44:38 Creating Terraform AWS Provider (SDKv2-style)...
2025/09/24 21:44:38 Initializing Terraform AWS Provider (SDKv2-style)...
=== RUN   TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_basic
=== PAUSE TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_basic
=== RUN   TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_identifyLanguage
=== PAUSE TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_identifyLanguage
=== RUN   TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_withOutputLocation
=== PAUSE TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_withOutputLocation
=== CONT  TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_basic
=== CONT  TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_withOutputLocation
=== CONT  TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_identifyLanguage
--- PASS: TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_basic (10.80s)
--- PASS: TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_identifyLanguage (10.93s)
--- PASS: TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_withOutputLocation (11.28s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/internal/service/transcribe	16.347s

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Most recent:

% make t T=TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_ K=transcribe
make: Verifying source code with gofmt...
==> Checking that code complies with gofmt requirements...
make: Running acceptance tests on branch: 🌿 f-transcribe-start-transcription-job 🌿...
TF_ACC=1 go1.24.6 test ./internal/service/transcribe/... -v -count 1 -parallel 20 -run='TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_'  -timeout 360m -vet=off
2025/09/30 17:15:45 Creating Terraform AWS Provider (SDKv2-style)...
2025/09/30 17:15:45 Initializing Terraform AWS Provider (SDKv2-style)...
=== RUN   TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_basic
=== PAUSE TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_basic
=== RUN   TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_identifyLanguage
=== PAUSE TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_identifyLanguage
=== RUN   TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_withOutputLocation
=== PAUSE TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_withOutputLocation
=== CONT  TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_basic
=== CONT  TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_withOutputLocation
=== CONT  TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_identifyLanguage
--- PASS: TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_identifyLanguage (16.91s)
--- PASS: TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_basic (17.07s)
--- PASS: TestAccTranscribeStartTranscriptionJobAction_withOutputLocation (17.72s)
PASS
ok  	github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/internal/service/transcribe	22.869s

[ewbankkit]

LGTM 🚀.

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