• UseAWS.util.uuid.v4() to generate UUID in AWS Lambda (NodeJS)
• No need to installhttps://www.npmjs.com/package/uuid.

Example:

const AWS = require('aws-sdk');exports.handler = async (event) => {   console.log(AWS.util.uuid.v4());}

How this works:
Below snippet from aws-sdk-js shows - it does having uuid node dependency included.

  /**   * @api private   */  uuid: {    v4: function uuidV4() {      return require('uuid').v4();    }  }

Benefits

• Avoiding addition of npm dependencyuuid.
• Reduced code size. Saves few milliseconds of cold start time.

Option: Node.js in-built module crypto

const {randomUUID} = require('crypto'); //Crypto is part of Node.js runtime since v14.17 console.log(randomUUID());

Current Node.js lambda runtime 14.x does supports above code.

Learned about this option from@galkin comments to this post. Thank you.

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