Technically you can use the latest version of Nodejs in lambda by bundling the binary with your lambda package and use the handler script to run the binary. The binary need to be compatible with Amazon Linux though, so you'll probably need to compile the binary on an ec2 instance running Amazon Linux.
To be fair, 4.3.2 the current LTS version, but would ideally be migrated prior to April.
Isn't node v6 the current LTS version? I think each even major version is LTS, and 6 is the latest one of those.
There is an overlap. Both V4 and V6 are currently LTS until April.
v6 is indeed LTS.
Better than the Python story, at least ...
Yeah! Sadly, if you wanna do actual Python (3.x?) stuff on aws you're better off rolling your own or paying premium to "have it all solved" on heroku :((
I pay $16/month for Heroku. Is AWS really that much cheaper?
By far. I use lambda as a public API for my sites. One site has 4000req / h (at peeks. Not much, but it's an api after all) and I only pay some cents.