diff --git a/provider/elastictranscoder/aws.go b/provider/elastictranscoder/aws.go
index d49641a9..03d2fa5c 100644
--- a/provider/elastictranscoder/aws.go
+++ b/provider/elastictranscoder/aws.go
@@ -408,7 +408,10 @@ func elasticTranscoderFactory(cfg *config.Config) (provider.TranscodingProvider,
 	if region == "" {
 		region = defaultAWSRegion
 	}
-	awsSession := session.New(aws.NewConfig().WithCredentials(creds).WithRegion(region))
+	awsSession, err := session.NewSession(aws.NewConfig().WithCredentials(creds).WithRegion(region))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
 	return &awsProvider{
 		c:      elastictranscoder.New(awsSession),
 		config: cfg.ElasticTranscoder,
diff --git a/provider/zencoder/zencoder.go b/provider/zencoder/zencoder.go
index 0d51c9c3..423cb956 100644
--- a/provider/zencoder/zencoder.go
+++ b/provider/zencoder/zencoder.go
@@ -100,6 +100,9 @@ func (z *zencoderProvider) buildOutputs(job *db.Job) ([]*zencoder.OutputSettings
 	}
 	if hlsOutputs > 0 {
 		optimizedOutputs, err := z.optimizeOutputsForHLS(zencoderOutputs)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
 		outputsWithHLSPlaylist := make([]*zencoder.OutputSettings, len(optimizedOutputs)+1)
 		copy(outputsWithHLSPlaylist, optimizedOutputs)
 		hlsPlaylist, err := z.buildHLSPlaylist(optimizedOutputs, hlsOutputs, job)