Amazon announces Corretto, a open source, production-ready distribution of OpenJDK backed by AWS

Yesterday, at Devoxx Belgium, Amazon announced the preview of Amazon Corretto which is a free distribution of OpenJDK that offers Long term support. With Corretto, users can develop and run Java applications on popular operating systems.

The team further mentioned that Corretto is multiplatform and production ready with long-term support that will include performance enhancements and security fixes. They also have plans to make Coretto the default OpenJDK on Amazon Linux 2 in 2019.

The preview currently supports Amazon Linux, Windows, macOS, and Docker, with additional support planned for general availability. Corretto is run internally by Amazon on thousands of production services. It is certified as compatible with the Java SE standard.

Features and benefits of Corretto

1. Amazon Corretto lets a user run the same environment in the cloud, on premises, and on their local machine. During Preview, Corretto will allow users to develop and run Java applications on popular operating systems like Amazon Linux 2, Windows, and macOS.
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2. Users can upgrade versions only when they feel the need to do so.

3. Since it is certified to meet the Java SE standard, Coretto can be used as a drop-in replacement for many Java SE distributions.

4. Corretto is available free of cost and there are no additional paid features or restrictions.

5. Coretto is backed by Amazon and the patches and improvements in Corretto enable Amazon to address high-scale, real-world service concerns. Coretto can meet heavy performance and scalability demands.

6. Customers will obtain long-term support, with quarterly updates including bug fixes and security patches. AWS will provide urgent fixes to customers outside of the quarterly schedule.

At Hacker news, users are talking about how the product's documentation could be formulated in a better way. Some users feel that the “Amazon's JVM is quite complex”. Users are also talking about Oracle offering the same service at a price. One user has pointed out the differences between Oracle’s service and Amazon’s service. The most notable feature of this release apparently happens to be the LTS offered by Amazon.

Head over to Amazon’s blog to read more about this release. You can also find the source code for Corretto at Github.

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