AWS recently announced the general availability of the Common Runtime (CRT) HTTP Client in the AWS SDK for Java 2.x. The new asynchronous client provides faster SDK startup time and a smaller ...

AWS unveils a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications, and initially aimed at Java developers.

But the cat-among-the-pigeons part of this is that AWS has also released it to GitHub as a free download. AWS will also make Corretto the default Java in its own Linux distribution, which is used ...