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Tag: Java

How to re-platform and modernize Java web applications on AWS

This post is written by: Bill Chan, Enterprise Solutions Architect According to a report from Grand View Research, “the global application server market size was valued at USD 15.84 billion in 2020 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 13.2% from 2021 to 2028.” The report also suggests that […]

Java 11 runtime now available in AWS Lambda

We are excited to announce that you can now develop your AWS Lambda functions using the Java 11 runtime. Start using this runtime today by specifying a runtime parameter value of java11 when creating or updating your Lambda functions. The Java 11 runtime does not introduce any changes in Lambda’s programming model, such as handler […]

Running Java applications on Amazon EC2 A1 instances with Amazon Corretto

This post is contributed by Jeff Underhill | EC2 Principal Business Development Manager and Arthur Petitpierre | Arm Specialist Solutions Architect   Amazon EC2 A1 instances deliver up to 45% cost savings for scale-out applications and are powered by AWS Graviton Processors that feature 64-bit Arm Neoverse cores and custom silicon designed by AWS. Amazon Corretto is […]

Re-affirming Long-Term Support for Java in Amazon Linux

In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in Amazon Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from Amazon until at least June 30, 2023. We are collaborating and contributing in the […]

Writing AWS Lambda Functions in Scala

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda General Manager Sean Reque, AWS Lambda Software Developer AWS Lambda’s Java support also makes it easy to write Lambda functions in other jvm-based languages. Let’s take a look at how you can do that for Scala. Getting Started with Scala If you’re an old hand at Scala, skip ahead…otherwise: We’ll step […]

AWS Lambda Announces Java Support

Tim Wagner, AWS Lambda Java comes to Lambda! Support for Java has been one of our most requested features, so I’m very happy to announce that’s it’s here! Check out the overview on the AWS blog or the docs. Java has a more heavyweight initialization than nodejs, so the console defaults to a larger memory […]