diff --git a/.changeset/popular-dolls-allow.md b/.changeset/popular-dolls-allow.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..f2ce7d723c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/popular-dolls-allow.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"@smithy/node-http-handler": patch
+---
+
+Fix constructor socketAcquisitionWarningTimeout does not work
diff --git a/packages/node-http-handler/src/node-http-handler.ts b/packages/node-http-handler/src/node-http-handler.ts
index a27a986609c..69e71181e7e 100644
--- a/packages/node-http-handler/src/node-http-handler.ts
+++ b/packages/node-http-handler/src/node-http-handler.ts
@@ -122,13 +122,15 @@ or increase socketAcquisitionWarningTimeout=(millis) in the NodeHttpHandler conf
   }
 
   private resolveDefaultConfig(options?: NodeHttpHandlerOptions | void): ResolvedNodeHttpHandlerConfig {
-    const { requestTimeout, connectionTimeout, socketTimeout, httpAgent, httpsAgent } = options || {};
+    const { requestTimeout, connectionTimeout, socketTimeout, socketAcquisitionWarningTimeout, httpAgent, httpsAgent } =
+      options || {};
     const keepAlive = true;
     const maxSockets = 50;
 
     return {
       connectionTimeout,
       requestTimeout: requestTimeout ?? socketTimeout,
+      socketAcquisitionWarningTimeout,
       httpAgent: (() => {
         if (httpAgent instanceof hAgent || typeof (httpAgent as hAgent)?.destroy === "function") {
           return httpAgent as hAgent;