Posted On: Dec 24, 2023

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces a new update to Synthetics NodeJS runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.1 and recommends that customers update Synthetics Canaries to the latest runtime version. This update includes security fixes, bug fixes, and UI Canaries stability improvements.  To learn more, see release notes.

Synthetics Canary’s runtime version can be updated using the Amazon Web Services Management Console for CloudWatch, Amazon CloudFormation, Amazon CLI or Amazon SDK. To learn more, refer to the CloudWatch Synthetics runtime support policy.

This update is now available in both Amazon Web Services China (Beijing) Region, operated by Sinnet and Amazon Web Services China (Ningxia) Region, operated by NWCD. To learn more about CloudWatch Synthetics, refer to the Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics User Guide.