diff --git a/.changeset/silent-spies-marry.md b/.changeset/silent-spies-marry.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..95c1871bd53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/silent-spies-marry.md
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+---
+"@smithy/abort-controller": patch
+"@smithy/chunked-blob-reader": patch
+"@smithy/chunked-blob-reader-native": patch
+"@smithy/config-resolver": patch
+"@smithy/core": patch
+"@smithy/credential-provider-imds": patch
+"@smithy/eventstream-codec": patch
+"@smithy/eventstream-serde-browser": patch
+"@smithy/eventstream-serde-config-resolver": patch
+"@smithy/eventstream-serde-node": patch
+"@smithy/eventstream-serde-universal": patch
+"@smithy/experimental-identity-and-auth": patch
+"@smithy/fetch-http-handler": patch
+"@smithy/hash-blob-browser": patch
+"@smithy/hash-node": patch
+"@smithy/hash-stream-node": patch
+"@smithy/invalid-dependency": patch
+"@smithy/is-array-buffer": patch
+"@smithy/md5-js": patch
+"@smithy/middleware-apply-body-checksum": patch
+"@smithy/middleware-compression": patch
+"@smithy/middleware-content-length": patch
+"@smithy/middleware-endpoint": patch
+"@smithy/middleware-retry": patch
+"@smithy/middleware-serde": patch
+"@smithy/middleware-stack": patch
+"@smithy/node-config-provider": patch
+"@smithy/node-http-handler": patch
+"@smithy/property-provider": patch
+"@smithy/protocol-http": patch
+"@smithy/querystring-builder": patch
+"@smithy/querystring-parser": patch
+"@smithy/service-client-documentation-generator": patch
+"@smithy/service-error-classification": patch
+"@smithy/shared-ini-file-loader": patch
+"@smithy/signature-v4": patch
+"@smithy/smithy-client": patch
+"@smithy/types": patch
+"@smithy/url-parser": patch
+"@smithy/util-base64": patch
+"@smithy/util-body-length-browser": patch
+"@smithy/util-body-length-node": patch
+"@smithy/util-buffer-from": patch
+"@smithy/util-config-provider": patch
+"@smithy/util-defaults-mode-browser": patch
+"@smithy/util-defaults-mode-node": patch
+"@smithy/util-endpoints": patch
+"@smithy/util-hex-encoding": patch
+"@smithy/util-middleware": patch
+"@smithy/util-retry": patch
+"@smithy/util-stream": patch
+"@smithy/util-stream-browser": patch
+"@smithy/util-stream-node": patch
+"@smithy/util-uri-escape": patch
+"@smithy/util-utf8": patch
+"@smithy/util-waiter": patch
+"@smithy/util-test": patch
+---
+
+generate dist-cjs with runtime list of export names for esm
diff --git a/scripts/compilation/Inliner.js b/scripts/compilation/Inliner.js
index fd7ce645d86..910765f3d47 100644
--- a/scripts/compilation/Inliner.js
+++ b/scripts/compilation/Inliner.js
@@ -276,7 +276,33 @@ module.exports = class Inliner {
   }
 
   /**
-   * step 6: we validate that the index.js file has a require statement
+   * Step 6: "Annotate the CommonJS export names for ESM import in node",
+   * except, correctly.
+   */
+  async annotateCjsExportNames() {
+    if (this.bailout) {
+      return this;
+    }
+    const exportNames = Object.keys(require(this.outfile));
+    /* (find and replace the following)
+    0 && (module.exports = {
+      ...
+    });
+    */
+    this.indexContents = this.indexContents.replace(
+      /0 && \(module\.exports = \{((.|\n)*?)\}\);/,
+      `
+0 && (module.exports = {
+  ${exportNames.join(",\n  ")}
+});
+`
+    );
+    fs.writeFileSync(this.outfile, this.indexContents, "utf-8");
+    return this;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * step 7: we validate that the index.js file has a require statement
    * for any variant files, to ensure they are not in the inlined (bundled) index.
    */
   async validate() {
diff --git a/scripts/inline.js b/scripts/inline.js
index 6ece8ec2f5d..031b147e22f 100644
--- a/scripts/inline.js
+++ b/scripts/inline.js
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ if (!package) {
     await inliner.rewriteStubs();
     await inliner.fixVariantImportPaths();
     await inliner.dedupeExternals();
+    await inliner.annotateCjsExportNames();
     await inliner.validate();
   })();
 }