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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.
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.
The posted URL goes to the French version of the page. This is the primary URL: https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/
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But isn't it exactly what Oracle offers? For the money, of course.
Oracle's offering involves paying Oracle money and getting regular phone calls from the Oracle sales department, which I have heard described in colourful ways.
The discussion goes something like this:
Customer: "How much does this cost?"
Oracle sales: "How much money do you have?"
Now this isn't quite as bad as it sounds (charge based on the value that the new system will bring) but the conversation was definitely a bit uncomfortable..... Oracle was not selected as the vendor.
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SAP weren't selected either for different reasons:
SAP: "You are a manufacturing company and will use SAP like this"
Customer: "We see why you might think that but we don't manufacture things"
SAP: "You are a manufacturing company and will use SAP like this"
Customer: Next...
Obviously, there was more to both conversations - but these are reasonable summaries based upon my dubious memories.
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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.
You could always say: "My elastic block service elastic cloud compute machines are not playing nicely with elastic load balancers (but my elastic file system ones are), I think it might be to do with elastic map reduce, or maybe elastic kubernetes service." No soup.
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But isn't it exactly what Oracle offers? For the money, of course.
Well, we want that for free, of course.
> 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.
This is about Amazon removing a revenue stream from Oracle. Amazon also announced a few days ago that they were removing Oracle products from AWS. Expect an article by Ben Thompson on stratechery.com in the next week.
To be fair I trust Amazon just about as much as I trust Oracle.
> 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.
The list of specific patches applied is here: 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.