diff --git a/provider/partition-aws/build-aws/buildspec.yaml b/provider/partition-aws/build-aws/buildspec.yaml
index aff82568212d9b992cde71474cc11cbc83fac4d9..93e32232c742abaf937fc26c1d148b6e6dc2d09a 100644
--- a/provider/partition-aws/build-aws/buildspec.yaml
+++ b/provider/partition-aws/build-aws/buildspec.yaml
@@ -44,6 +44,10 @@ phases:
       - export AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=`aws sts get-caller-identity | grep Account | cut -d':' -f 2 | cut -d'"' -f 2`
       - export AWS_OSDU_DEV_MAVEN_AUTH_TOKEN=`aws codeartifact get-authorization-token --domain $AWS_OSDU_DEV_MAVEN_DOMAIN --domain-owner $AWS_ACCOUNT_ID --query authorizationToken --output text`
       # Install git secrets
+      #TODO temporarily adding hotfix, due to https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets/issues/220
+      - export SAY_LOCATION=`ln -s "$(which echo)" say`
+      - export PATH="$PATH:$SAY_LOCATION"
+
       - git clone https://github.com/awslabs/git-secrets.git
       - cd git-secrets && make install && cd ..
       - git secrets --install && git secrets --register-aws
@@ -113,4 +117,4 @@ artifacts:
   name: ${REPO_NAME}_${BRANCH_NAME}_$(date +%F)_${CODEBUILD_BUILD_NUMBER}.zip
 cache:
   paths:
-    - "/root/.m2/**/*"
\ No newline at end of file
+    - "/root/.m2/**/*"