Amazon Corretto as the default JVM - Amazon Linux 2023
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Amazon Corretto as the default JVM

AL2023 ships with Amazon Corretto as the default (and only) Java Development Kit (JDK). All Java based packages in AL2023 are all built with Amazon Corretto 17.

If you are migrating from AL2, you can smoothly transition from the equivalent OpenJDK version on AL2 to Amazon Corretto.