Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics announces new runtime version releases; syn-nodejs-puppeteer-7.0 for NodeJS Runtime and syn-python-selenium-3.0 for Python Runtime. The NodeJS Runtime update includes dependency upgrades to puppeteer (v21.9.0) and Chromium (v121.0.6167.0.85). The Python Runtime update includes dependency upgrades to Chromium and Chromedriver (v121.0.6167.85). To learn more, see NodeJS release notes and Python release notes.

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics recommends that customers update Synthetics canaries to the latest runtime version. 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.