Using NodeJS 18 in AWS Amplify on Amazon Linux 2 fails

Question

Trying to upgrade an existing React app running on AWS Amplify from node v16 to v18
The image used is the provided Amazon Linux 2

Expected it to install node 18 on the machine it spun up and build the application, since this is the LTS version

Here is the error I get in the build process:

2022-11-15T19:19:02.924Z [WARNING]: node: /lib64/libm.so.6: version GLIBC_2.27' not found (required by node)
node: /lib64/libc.so.6: version GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by node)

Answer 1

As of April 2023, per this comment:

Node 18 available in the default Docker image for all builds! The version is pinned to 18.13.0, which you can leverage by simply adding the nvm use 18 command to your build spec.

version: 1
backend:
  phases:
    build:
      commands:
        - nvm use 18
        - amplifyPush --simple

Answer 2

The same problem happened to me, I fixed it by adding a custom image in the build config.

You can see the steps to add a custom image in the following link

The image that worked for me was the following:

public.ecr.aws/t7o4u3y2/node-18.2.0:latest

UPDATE

Now is available support Node 18.x

Please see the update here