[impostervt]

Looks like yes: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/walkthrough-s3-e...

Now, how to deal with node packages that require libraries not on the default amazon linux ami?

[bradyd]

From that example it looks like it doesn't support NPM directly, instead you download the dependencies locally and include the node_modules directory in the zip file you upload. Interestingly the example makes use of ImageMagick, which I don't believe is in the default AMI.