Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I want to instrument a lambda function that processes a batch of SQS messages. Each SQS message contains a W3C tracing context in some custom fields and I extract them manually for each message and updating the Otel Context. Hence, I am not really interested in the span that is automatically created on each invocation of the Lambda. I would like to disable those, but there is no option to do so. Using the AWSLambdaInstrumentation seems to be hardcoded and not configurable via OTEL_NODE_ENABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS / OTEL_NODE_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS. I still want to use the full NodeJS lambda layer since it handles all the remaining auto-instrumentation, initialization and flushing properly.
Describe the solution you'd like
Setting OTEL_NODE_DISABLED_INSTRUMENTATIONS="aws-lambda" should disable the AWS lambda auto instrumentation and not create a span for each invocation of the Lambda.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Not using the NodeJS layer, only the Otel Collector layer, and then initializing Opentelemetry manually. But this get quite tricky if you want to use auto instrumentation, especially with the aws-sdk and bundling everything using CDK.
Additional context
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