Maintenance: Support for Node.js 24

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Summary

As stated in the Developer Guide for AWS Lambda, the Node.js 24 managed runtime is slated to be released in November 2025.

While this date is indicative only and subject to change, we should start working towards adding support for the runtime in Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript).

Why is this needed?

So that we can migrate the project to use Node.js 24 as development environment and include the version in our test matrixes.

Which area does this relate to?

Other

Solution

Prerequisites

• AWS CDK should support the new managed runtime.

High level steps

• Update devcontainer & gitpod container
• Update GitHub Actions to use Node.js 24.x
• Update GitHub Issue templates
• Update contributing docs, nvm
• Add node version to test matrix both for unit & e2e tests
• Run all tests to ensure compatibility
• Merge & release

Acknowledgment

• This request meets Powertools for AWS Lambda (TypeScript) Tenets
• Should this be considered in other Powertools for AWS Lambda languages? i.e. Python, Java, and .NET

Future readers

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