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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.

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...

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

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