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

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

Amazon Linux 2 provides a secure, stable, and high-performance execution environment. Amazon Linux AMI and Amazon 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 Amazon EC2 instance usage.