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Cloud and engineering teams use Azul Platform Prime to reduce cloud waste and leverage committed cloud spend, all while improving carrying capacity and maintaining service levels for growing workloads. Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK (Azul Zing) are the key component provided by Azul Platform Prime. Azul Zing is an enhanced build of OpenJDK for superior performance, consistency and efficiency thanks to the C4 Garbage Collector and Falcon JIT Compiler. With Azul Platform Prime, you get access to various other components like ReadyNow, Optimizer Hub, monitoring tools, and much more.

Overview of Azul Platform Prime

Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK

Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK (Azul Zing) are a modern, TCK-compliant Java platform based on OpenJDK. You don’t need to recompile your code to run your Java workloads with Azul Zing and take advantage of:

  • Low, consistent response latency of your Java workloads.

  • Higher total throughput and carrying capacity, even under strict response latency SLAs.

  • Faster warm-up to your application’s steady-state performance and less deviations from steady-state performance over the life of your Java application.

  • Infrastructure savings from serving the same load with fewer Java instances.

Azul Zing delivers these benefits through:

  • Lower latency outliers thanks to the C4 pauseless garbage collector.

  • Higher throughput and code speed thanks to the Falcon JIT compiler.

  • Lower warmup time and less deoptimizations thanks to the ReadyNow warmup optimizer and Cloud Native Compiler.

Difference with Azul Zulu Builds of OpenJDK (Azul Zulu)

Azul Zulu and Azul Zing are both Java runtimes provided by Azul Systems, but have a different focus:

  • Azul Zulu is a freely available build of OpenJDK. It is designed to be a reliable and secure Java runtime for general-purpose use. It’s also a one-to-one replacement for Oracle Java SE with the most architectures, package types, and configuration options compared to other OpenJDK providers. Azul Zulu is part of Azul Platform Core, a commercial solution, offering engineering support and fast security updates.

  • Azul Zing is a commercial JVM, based on OpenJDK, optimized for low-latency and high-performance applications. Thanks to the C4 garbage collector and Falcon compiler, it’s the ideal solution for real-time and mission-critical applications. Azul Zing is part of Azul Platform Prime, a commercial solution, only available for free for evaluation.

Getting Started

Testing Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK

Once you’ve installed Zing, you probably want to compare how it performs compared to your current installation of OpenJDK.

Tuning Azul Zing Builds of OpenJDK

Support Tiers Provided by Azul Platform Prime

The following levels of enterprise technical support subscriptions are available within Azul Platform Prime:

  • Standard Support Tier: Quarterly releases, next business day support during business hours, and more.

  • Premium Support Tier: Out-of-cycle bug fixes and early release access, 24x7x365 support, and more.

  • Platinum Support Tier: Premium support tier + faster quarterly CPU updates.

For all commercial info, check Azul Platform Prime on our website.