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Amazon Corretto Reviews and Ratings

Rating: 7.7 out of 10
Score
7.7 out of 10

Reviews

4 Reviews

Reliable OpenJDK with long-term support.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Amazon Corretto provides us with ready-to-use tools to effectively build and run Java applications for any operating system like Linux, Windows, or macOS. Highly available and quick to get started at no cost with excellent service and long-term support that aims to enhance performance and security for critical application development.

Pros

  • Ready to use distribution of OpenJDK.
  • Run and develop applications on popular OS.
  • Provides best Java production tools for no cost.

Cons

  • Need for comprehensive documentation.
  • Memory management issues.
  • Improvement for patches delivery time.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Corretto is the best platform for individuals, companies, or businesses to get started at no cost and easily develop and run Java applications in the same environment in the Cloud, on-premises, and/or on local PCs. Great support from AWS, solving all performance and security problems, and able to work on different platforms.

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Nava Nathalia
.NET Engineer in Information Technology at Poslovna Inteligencija (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Amazon Corretto
2 years of experience
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"Amazon Corretto is an open source that fixes OpenJDK issues by using its version for application development."

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

With the confidence of a long-term support commitment, we use Amazon Corretto to create state-of-the-art software products. Long-term support, free use, and production-ready distribution of Open Java Development Kit, also, a web app's performance optimization stands out. Amazon Corretto provides patches, security updates, and bug fixes for a set period. It is easy-to-use front-end and deployment to the production set it apart because of its compatibility with various settings, and teamwork is simplified.

Pros

  • It incorporates the newest JDK version's security patches.
  • It's helpful when testing hybrid deployments locally.
  • It provides a significant advantage in terms of overall performance.
  • It is especially useful because it gives us free access to the open JDK on any platform.

Cons

  • Some JDK updates are missing some patches.
  • Memory management issues impacted application performance.
  • It is an easy-to-use JDK, but it lacks a large developer community.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Corretto is convenient for individuals, businesses, and companies due to its centralized nature. It solves scalability issues and is compatible with most operating systems, simplifying JDK setup. The most attractive feature of this service is its low price. AWS's multiple resources in one place can help smaller or new companies start cheaply. Using JDK is more manageable with proper documentation. It's easy for me to integrate this AWS service with others. Apache Kafka, S3 and Cloudwatch are integrated.

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Tuhin Sadik
Software Engineer in Information Technology at Grameen Solutions (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Amazon Corretto
1 year of experience
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No Cost Open JDK

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Before Corretto we used to use Java JDK but it was not reliable and supported that much. So we switched to Amazon Corretto which now solves all of our issues such as performance, and cross-platform support, and allow us to do local testing in Hybrid platforms, and it also offers a production-ready SDK which helped our team in cutting our production time which pushed our team's productivity.

Pros

  • Offers a production-ready SDK with no costing
  • It allow us to do local testing in Hybrid platforms
  • Amazon Corretto offers a fluid experience on every platform, so it has really been amazing in less wasting of time.

Cons

  • Amazon Corretto really has short documentation which has been the issue for us in the past resulting in the development issues
  • This service is relatively unknown and less popular which results in the smaller community which means in case you get stuck somewhere it may be difficult for you to the find the resources.
  • No other issues noted as of now by us

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Corretto is best suited if you want to write Java apps in the AWS environment with the functionality of cross-platform support with minimal to no cost and that too with long-term support and that too with a production-ready OpenJDK. If your requirement is any of these points then Amazon Corretto is probably the best option available for you in the market.

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Amazon Corretto
1 year of experience

Great replacement of Sun's JDK

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Amazon Corretto to develop cutting-edge software products in the healthcare domain. Amazon Corretto supports the latest version of Java released by Oracle. It helps us release products using Java's latest version to compete in the software domain and improve the performance of our existing applications. All the applications are deployed on the AWS Cloud.

Pros

  • Security features of the latest Java Version 17.
  • Compatibility with other AWS cloud resources.
  • Very low bugs in production.

Cons

  • There is a delay in the delivery of patches.

Likelihood to Recommend

Amazon Corretto is a specialized implementation of OpenJDK, which is well suited for all the Java applications being deployed on the AWS stack. It has lots of security features and is very compatible with other services available on AWS. If we are using any other cloud provider, then Amazon Corretto is not suited.

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Sunny Hemnani
Senior Software Engineer in Engineering at Coditas (501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Amazon Corretto
3 years of experience
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