Azul Platform Core Reviews & Insights

Score7.9 out of 10

44 Reviews and Ratings

Community insights

TrustRadius Insights for Azul Platform Core are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Pros

Performance Capabilities: Users have praised the platform for its ability to efficiently handle large memory footprints and deliver high throughput.

Effective Garbage Collector: Reviewers have found the garbage collector feature to be effective in managing memory, contributing to stable latency response times.

Great Support Services: The platform received positive feedback for providing great support, with users appreciating the quick and knowledgeable assistance offered.

Quick Updates and Proactive Notifications: Users are satisfied with the platform's quick release of updates and proactive notifications that enable them to prepare for changes seamlessly.

Exploit Protection and User-Friendly Interface: The platform's protection against exploits through patches and its user-friendly interface were positively acknowledged by users.

Cost-Effectiveness: Users consider the platform cost-effective, especially when combined with additional JVM arguments to enhance performance.

Azul Platform Core Reviews

9 Reviews

Well supported JVM for enterprise applications with memory and performance needs

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

May 14, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azul Platform Core to run our heavy single booking system backend that is very heavy on memory. We used to have big problems with GC pause times as well as class loaders causing very slow response times after releases.
Azul Platform Core helped us resolve both issues and with the help of Zing Vision we now have a much better control over any similar problems that can occur.

Pros

Performance and big memory footprints
Garbage collector, alternatives
Support is great

Cons

More documentation
More introductions on how to use their additional tooling

Likelihood to Recommend

The Azul Platform Core is very well suited for enterprise applications that need high performance and have a big memory footprint. If you need quick support that actually will debug your issues and bring you valuable help, Azul Platform Core has a very good team specialized to help you.

Verified User

Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

7 years of experience

Azul Platform Core in Comparison With its Peers

Rating: 6 out of 10

Incentivized

March 4, 2024

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We used Azul Platform Core for all our Java products. Azul Platform Core is used as it is cheaper than Oracle and more secure than OpenJDK.

Pros

Cost-effective
Additional JVM arguments
High throughput

Cons

Support from the Azul Team
High CPU and memory at times
Missing support for some of OpenJDK JVM options

Likelihood to Recommend

I would go for Azul Platform Core where someone needs secure JRE and JDK at a cheaper price where they can afford some CPU memory spikes. If you are highly concerned about the high availability of systems, or CPU memory usage, then, in my opinion, Azul Platform Core should be avoided. Also, considering what I believe to be their poor support, you might want to reconsider buying this subscription.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Great solution for our Java needs!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

October 10, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are using it to license java for our point of sale and payment systems.

Pros

Updates are released quickly
Notifications of patches are sent ahead of time to prepare for the change
Delivery was quick and seemless

Cons

Non at this time

Likelihood to Recommend

The ablility to contract the licenses was quick and easy. The teams that handled the onboarding and technical questions were knowledgeable and responsive.

Aaron Meek

Manager, Payments in Information Technology at Meijer (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

High performance Azul Platform Core.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 14, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our enterprise application stack is Java and Spring framework based and we have been using Azul Platform Core for over 4 years. We are very satisfied with their Linux JDKs as they always offer great performance for real-time applications hosted on both Intel/AMD servers. Their Platform Core product is well-documented and easy to use.

Pros

Always complain about Oracle JDKs.
It is optimized for both Intel/AMD server hardware.
Up-to-date and easy-to-use documentation.

Cons

Offer more docker configurations with popular application stacks.

Likelihood to Recommend

Azul Platform Core is great for running real-time Java-based applications. It is guaranteed Java compliance, so you can swap Oracle JDK with Azul JDK without changing any code. It offers many package types and configuration options. It is optimized and supported on multiple OSs (Windows/Linux/Mac). Their documentation is up-to-date and well-maintained.

Verified User

Vice-President in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

A huge boost to our business critical application

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 8, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We bad a business critical application with a big telco customer which managed billions of messages/day and which had performance problems connected to memory and gc. We evaluated with great sucvess the use of an Azul Platform Core appliance. The replacement was a very simple task with no changes to the original application.

Pros

Memory management
GC
Latency response time stability

Cons

Documentation

Likelihood to Recommend

Suited: usiness critical applications, very huge memort footprint, GC heavy used applications. Even with bad designed applications that can't be changed it could be a great help.

Tiziano Bezzi

Solution Architect in Information Technology at Icteam (Lutech) (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

Reseller

5 years of experience

Azul Platform Core is a great jdk

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 6, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Azul Platform Core to run with our project that requires Java sdk. It is fairly easy to use and has never required an extensive setup. This is why I have always used it for projects that need a Java sdk. Also, it is fairly quick for updating bugs or exploits.

Pros

Updates frequently
Patches exploits
Easy to use

Cons

Nothing really

Likelihood to Recommend

With my experience with Azul Platform Core Java sdk, I would say it's well suited for any developers who need Java sdk for their project. It is updated frequently and bugs and exploits are patched fairly quickly. I have never used the support, so I am not sure how to review that side.

Verified User

Engineer in Engineering (5001-10,000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

Improved Performance in Seconds

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

April 5, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We run all of our Java workloads on Azul. We have found the resilience, security and speed of their product to be top notch, and the support we receive from Azul has been better than any competitor we've worked with in the past.

Pros

Performance
Security
Affordability
Support

Cons

A few test cases performed worse on Azul than Hotspot
N/A
N/A

Likelihood to Recommend

We especially like putting huge workloads where giant heaps are needed/advantageous to the problem on Azul. We find that we achieve better stability, better throughput, and more metronymic performance on Azul compared to others.

Verified User

Executive in Engineering (1001-5000 employees)

Vetted Review

15 years of experience

A happy customer of Azul Platform Core

Rating: 8 out of 10

Incentivized

March 29, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We wanted to reduce the operational cost for Java SE with an enterprise level solution which provides security as well as different configuration available to import various packages. Azul just fit right to our requirements and we are using it from several years happily.

Pros

Easy To manage Configuration
Secure
Compliant to J2SE
Definitely helped to optimize the operational cost

Cons

Should work on providing light weight solutions
Compatibility with latest open source solutions

Likelihood to Recommend

Frankly speaking, we are the happy customer of Azul Core since last 4-5 years. It meets most of our requirements so far an that why we are still using it.

Verified User

Vice-President in Engineering (10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

3 years of experience

Meets high demand of low latency systems

Rating: 10 out of 10

February 13, 2023

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Zulu is very fast modern jvm that very easy to manage and control. I do not know other commercial JVMs that has similar performance. Updates regularly become available that allows us to keep protected from possible security accidents. The documentation is quite often updated and contains all maintenance information. With such high quality of documentation we almost never contact customer support.

Pros

well written documentation
amazing GC performance
regular updates
qualified and fast support

Cons

clarification about product differences
more frequent QA sessions
public price list

Likelihood to Recommend

low latency java apps

Verified User

Employee in Engineering (51-200 employees)

Vetted Review