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"This initial release is a developer preview release for testing and validation purposes." Well... that's not really production-ready then, is it? I assume they intend to make it 'production-ready' at some point in the future, but those two statements are directly at odds.
> 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.
Well, it's corrected coffee, which matches their intention and general java/beans/jar theme. I kinda like it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caff%C3%A8_corretto
"This initial release is a developer preview release for testing and validation purposes." Well... that's not really production-ready then, is it? I assume they intend to make it 'production-ready' at some point in the future, but those two statements are directly at odds.
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.
Amazon has good developers, but the JVM is quite complex and the pool of people who can work on it is pretty rare, I wonder how well they’ll be able to maintain it on their own.
Surely Amazon Corretto is just going to fracture the Java ecosystem?
You can get Open JDK from any of the following places on them intarweb tubes, and they don't seem to fracture the ecosystem. Linux is available from many places, it may seem fractured, yet Linux seems to be taking over the world. Even Microsoft now "loves" Linux. https://aws.amazon.com/fr/corretto/ https://github.com/corretto https://adoptopenjdk.net/ https://github.com/AdoptOpenJDK https://github.com/ojdkbuild/ojdkb…
[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/legal/openjdk-trademark-notice.html
We use OpenJDK 8 at Datastreamer as part of our social media and blog/news crawler. 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 jus…
[1]: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/oracle-jdk-rele...
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I’m honestly surprised they didn’t go with “Simple Java Service”. /s Edit: Added sarcasm indicator
Probably because they don’t own the trademark on Java.
> 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.
For SQL Server, you just go to the page and the price is right there.
For Oracle, you have to talk to a salesmen. That turned me off from Oracle.
With AWS, I know exactly how much a resource will cost and there are a myriad of ways you can get detailed billing.