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This is largely because Node 16 is the current LTS.

Node 16 graduated to LTS on 20 Apr 2021. Lambda added support for Node 16 just last month, basically 13 months after.

I hope they add Node 18 sooner than that.

Node 18 will be active LTS in October this year. So they will have 11 month of buffer

AWS have already openly admitted that they were slow bringing Node 16 support and plan to be quicker next time round.

> We recognize that customers have been waiting for some time for this runtime release. We hear your feedback and plan to release the next Node.js runtime version in a timelier manner.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/node-js-16-x-runtime-no...

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