Posted On: Feb 18, 2024

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces release of Synthetics NodeJS Runtime versions - syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.2, and syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.2 - and Python Runtime version - syn-python-selenium-2.1. This release brings updated Chromium dependency libs for forward compatibility with the OS and adds new Lambda Ephemeral Storage usage metric in customer account. To learn more, see release notes.

It is important to note that the existing NodeJS-18 Runtimes versions (syn-nodejs-puppeteer-6.1 and lower), NodeJS-16 Runtime versions (syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.1 and lower), and Python Runtime version (syn-python-selenium-2.0 and lower) will be deprecated on March 8th 2024. We strongly recommend customers to update their Synthetics Canaries to these latest runtime versions before March 8th to ensure continual support. 

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 how to update, 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.