Puppeteer PDF generation fails on Elastic Beanstalk with "Could not find Chrome" error

I am trying to generate PDF invoices using Puppeteer in my Node.js app. Locally, the code works perfectly and generates the PDFs as expected.

However, when I deploy the app to Elastic Beanstalk (Amazon Linux 2023), it fails with an error saying Chrome cannot be found. I tried installing Chrome via .ebextensions but the deployment often hangs or times out.

Here is my PDF generation function:

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer');
const fs = require('fs');
const path = require('path');

function fillTemplate(html, data) {
    return html.replace(/{{(.*?)}}/g, (_, key) => data[key.trim()] ?? '');
}

async function generateInvoicePDF(filledHtml, outputFileName) {
    const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
        headless: true,
        executablePath: '/usr/bin/google-chrome',
        args: [
            '--no-sandbox',
            '--disable-setuid-sandbox',
            '--disable-dev-shm-usage'
        ]
    });

    const page = await browser.newPage();
    await page.setContent(filledHtml, { waitUntil: 'networkidle0' });

    const logoBase64 = fs.readFileSync('./public/icon.png', { encoding: 'base64' });

    await page.pdf({
        path: outputFileName,
        format: 'A4',
        printBackground: true,
        displayHeaderFooter: true,
        margin: {
            top: '60px',
            bottom: '60px',
            left: '15mm',
            right: '15mm'
        }
    });

    await browser.close();
    return outputFileName;
}

And here is my EB config to install Chrome:

# .ebextensions/01_install_chrome.config
commands:
  01_install_chrome:
    command: "curl https://intoli.com/install-google-chrome.sh | bash"

What I Tried

• Installed Chrome using .ebextensions.

• Verified that /usr/bin/google-chrome exists on the instance.

• Set executablePath in Puppeteer launch options.

What Happens

• Deployment sometimes gets stuck or times out.

• Puppeteer cannot find Chrome during PDF generation.

Environment

• Node.js v22.18.0

• Puppeteer-core latest version

• EB platform: Node.js on Amazon Linux 2023

Question
How can I reliably install Google Chrome on Elastic Beanstalk so that Puppeteer can generate PDFs without deployment failures or timing out? I need a solution that works both locally and on EB/EC2, without using curl | bash which causes deployment to hang.