AWS Open Source Blog
Category: Java
Amazon joins the Java Community Process (JCP)
Amazon runs thousands of Java production services; both we and our customers depend heavily on various distributions of the JDK (Java Development Kit). In 2016 we started building Amazon Corretto, our OpenJDK binary distribution, and started using it to run AWS and other Amazon services. In 2018, we open sourced Corretto and made it available […]
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Using GraalVM to Build Minimal Docker Images for Java Applications
Optimizing the size of Docker images has several benefits. One of these is faster deployment times, which is very important if your application needs to scale out quickly to respond to an unexpected traffic burst. In this post, I’ll show you an interesting approach for optimizing Docker images for Java applications, which also helps to […]
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Introducing Amazon Corretto, a No-Cost Distribution of OpenJDK with Long-Term Support
Update! Amazon Corretto became Generally Available on January 31st, 2019. Java is one of the most popular languages in use by AWS customers, and we are committed to supporting Java and keeping it free. Many of our customers have become concerned that they would have to pay for a long-term supported version of Java to […]
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