AWS and Azul Platform Prime: Better Together

In today’s digital economy, businesses are continuously seeking ways to optimize their cloud architecture to enhance performance while driving value. At Azul, we are excited to share how Azul Platform Prime, when paired with AWS, can help you achieve these goals. By leveraging the powerful capabilities of Prime, AWS customers can enhance application performance and improve the end-user experience while also lowering their costs. Better yet, they can strategically reinvest these improvements in Amazon’s cutting-edge generative AI service, Amazon Bedrock, to foster innovation. 

Enhancing application performance and end-user experience 

Performance is critical to any application, directly impacting user satisfaction and business outcomes. The enhancements that Prime brings to your Java applications lead to improved performance and a better user experience:

1. Faster warmup: The ReadyNow feature ensures quicker warmup for your applications. This is particularly beneficial for cloud-based microservices architectures, including Kubernetes environments, where containers are frequently spun up and down to meet customer demand.
2. Consistent low latency: The C4 Garbage Collector eliminates stop-the-world pauses and reduces latency, providing a smooth and responsive experience for end users.
3. Higher throughput: Optimized performance enables higher transaction rates and better handling of peak loads, ensuring that your applications remain performant even under heavy usage. 

Lowering AWS EC2 instance costs 

Running applications on AWS EC2 instances can be costly as your computational needs grow. While the primary benefit of Azul Platform Prime lies in enhancing performance and improving user experience, it also delivers cost efficiencies as a byproduct of its optimized performance: 

1. Lower CPU utilization: Azul Platform Prime’s Falcon Just-in-Time (JIT) compiler and garbage collection algorithms are highly optimized to reduce CPU cycles required for Java workloads. This reduction in CPU utilization can help you avoid autoscaling, which directly translates into lower EC2 instance costs.
2. Enhanced resource efficiency: Prime enables more efficient use of memory and computational resources, allowing you to do more with fewer instances. This optimization helps reduce the overall number of EC2 instances required for your applications.
3. Reduced cloud waste: Applications run faster and more efficiently with Prime, allowing you to shrink the number of horizontally scaled instances, leading to substantial cost savings.

Aligning with the AWS Well-Architected Framework 

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach for customers to evaluate architectures and implement designs that scale with application needs over time. It is built on six pillars: 

1. Operational excellence: Ensuring operations are automated and reliable. 

2. Security: Protecting data, systems, and assets. 

3. Reliability: Recovering quickly from infrastructure or service disruptions. 

4. Performance efficiency: Using IT and computing resources efficiently. 

5. Cost optimization: Running systems to deliver business value at the lowest price point. 

6. Sustainability: Reducing the environmental impacts of cloud workloads. 

Azul Platform Prime aligns seamlessly with these pillars by enhancing performance efficiency and reliability, driving cost optimization, and ensuring operational excellence. It helps you build a resilient and efficient architecture that adheres to AWS best practices. 

Switching from Amazon Corretto to Azul Platform Prime 

Azul and Amazon are both contributors to OpenJDK. For existing Amazon Corretto customers, switching to Prime is a straightforward process that requires no code changes or recompilation. Azul Platform Prime provides superior performance, pauseless garbage collection, and better resource utilization compared to standard OpenJDK distributions like Corretto. This upgrade path ensures that your Java applications are optimized for the highest efficiency and cost savings on AWS. By making this switch, you can unlock significant performance gains, operational efficiencies, and top-line revenue growth that directly impact your bottom line. 

Leveraging Azul’s Partnership with AWS 

Azul is a proud AWS Graviton Partner, and our solutions are readily available on the AWS Marketplace. This strong partnership underscores our commitment to providing top-tier solutions that are deeply integrated with AWS services. 

By choosing Azul Platform Prime, you benefit from a robust, certified solution optimized for AWS environments, including the latest AWS Graviton processors, ensuring you get the most out of your cloud investments. In fact, the median speed for running workloads in Renaissance on Azul Platform Prime is 26% faster on AWS Graviton 3 vs. OpenJDK and 18% faster on Graviton 2 vs. OpenJDK. 

Additionally, customers can leverage their Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) to purchase Azul Platform Prime via the AWS Marketplace, making it easier and more cost-effective to integrate Azul’s high-performance Java solutions into their existing AWS infrastructure.

Driving Innovation with Amazon Bedrock 

The performance improvements and cost efficiencies gained from using Azul Platform Prime on AWS can be strategically reinvested into innovative services such as Amazon Bedrock. Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that makes it easy to build, deploy, and scale generative AI applications using foundation models. Here’s how you can benefit: 

1. Accelerate AI development: With the savings from reduced EC2 costs, you can allocate more budget to developing and deploying AI applications using Amazon Bedrock. This can help your business stay ahead in the competitive landscape by leveraging the latest advancements in AI. 

2. Enhance customer experiences: By integrating generative AI capabilities into your applications, you can provide more personalized and engaging experiences for your users. Amazon Bedrock simplifies this process, enabling you to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure management. 

3. Scalable AI solutions: Amazon Bedrock’s fully managed service allows you to scale your AI applications effortlessly, ensuring that you can meet growing demand without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. 

Conclusion 

By combining the power of AWS and Azul Platform Prime, you can enhance application performance, improve the end-user experience, and reduce cloud waste as a secondary benefit. These advantages not only optimize your current operations but also free up resources to invest in transformative technologies like Amazon Bedrock. Embrace the synergy of AWS and Azul Platform Prime to drive your business forward, innovating faster and delivering exceptional value to your customers. 

Discover how Azul Platform Prime can help you maximize the potential of your AWS infrastructure today. Visit www.azul.com or contact our sales team to learn more.