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> Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit I really, really wish AWS would start using practical/self-explanatory names for their products.
It's pretty solid for production use. We're REALLY production as we've been in business for a decade and burn a ton of CPU indexing web content. Think petabytes... :)
The only time we use the Oracle JDK is to run their profiler which is pretty darn nice. It's runtime and sampling so you can get a nice sample in a production app by just restarting it...
I've never had a problem with an incorrect sample.
What I REALLY want though is continuous profiling where we have profiling data uploaded to the cloud and alerts when we have an app regression automatically and I want to be told WHERE the regression is. ...
Legitimate question: what is keeping stock OpenJDK from being considered "production-ready" as it is?
I don't qualify to answer this... But most enterprises want someone to hold accountable in case of any catastrophic failures.
Production Ready is a different thing than commercially supported. Linux is "production ready" even if you get a distribution which is not commercially supported with a contract and agreements on fixing it at 3 AM when it blows up.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/corretto/latest/corretto-8-ug/pa...
Looks to be mostly or maybe entirely backports.
Good to see another option out there, it will be interesting to see how many of these get folded back into openjdk8 as it transfers maintainership.
> Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit I really, really wish AWS would start using practical/self-explanatory names for their products.
I'll take names over alphabet soup. My EBS EC2 machines are not playing nicely with ELB (but my EFS ones are), I think it might be to do with EMR, or maybe EKS.
Legitimate question: what is keeping stock OpenJDK from being considered "production-ready" as it is?
Lack of long-time support commitment. A lot of java users want to hear someone say "we'll push updates for any and all CVEs for the next forty-two years, and that's a promise". They may not actually install those updates, but they want to hear someone say that they will exist.
It's a bit sad that they don't even package it in Amazon Linux's repos. In my eyes that's just building trust on one end and demolishing it on the other.
Probably a good reason to keep it out of the repos
> Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit I really, really wish AWS would start using practical/self-explanatory names for their products.
it doesn’t matter when you have this many products. if you know the product, you will find or learn the name. if you don’t know the product, the name doesn’t matter
It also makes discoverability harder. eg when you're already on AWS and you think "is there a service that does something like [insert problem]?"
> Amazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit I really, really wish AWS would start using practical/self-explanatory names for their products.
I'll take names over alphabet soup. My EBS EC2 machines are not playing nicely with ELB (but my EFS ones are), I think it might be to do with EMR, or maybe EKS.
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Lack of long-time support commitment. A lot of java users want to hear someone say "we'll push updates for any and all CVEs for the next forty-two years, and that's a promise". They may not actually install those updates, but they want to hear someone say that they will exist.
But isn't it exactly what Oracle offers? For the money, of course.
Right. What distinguishes Amazon's offering is that it has that kind of backing at zero cost.
With Oracle, you can have zero cost, or “production-ready” backing, but not both together.