Posted On: Jul 24, 2023

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces a new update to Synthetics NodeJS runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.0 and recommends that customers migrate Synthetics canaries to the latest runtime version. Runtime version syn-nodejs-puppeteer-5.0 includes updates to third-party dependency packages (Puppeteer v19.7.0 and Chromium v111.0.5563.146).

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

To learn more about CloudWatch Synthetics, refer to the Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics User Guide. To see a full list of regions where CloudWatch Synthetics is available, see Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics endpoints and quotas.