Re-affirming Long-Term Support for Java in HAQM Linux

In light of Oracle’s recent announcement indicating an end to free long-term support for OpenJDK after January 2019, we re-affirm that the OpenJDK 8 and OpenJDK 11 Java runtimes in HAQM Linux 2 will continue to receive free long-term support from HAQM until at least June 30, 2023. We are collaborating and contributing in the OpenJDK community to provide our customers with a free long-term supported Java runtime.

In addition, HAQM Linux AMI 2018.03, the last major release of HAQM Linux AMI, will receive support for the OpenJDK 8 runtime at least until June 30, 2020, to facilitate migration to HAQM Linux 2. Java runtimes provided by AWS Services such as AWS Lambda, HAQM Elastic Map Reduce (EMR), and AWS Elastic Beanstalk will also use the AWS supported OpenJDK builds.

HAQM Linux users will not need to make any changes to get support for OpenJDK 8. OpenJDK 11 will be made available through the HAQM Linux 2 repositories at a future date. The HAQM Linux OpenJDK support posture will also apply to the on-premises virtual machine images and Docker base image of HAQM Linux 2.

HAQM Linux 2 provides a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment. HAQM Linux AMI and HAQM Linux 2 include a Java runtime based on OpenJDK 8 and are available in all public AWS regions at no additional cost beyond the pricing for HAQM EC2 instance usage.