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Azul Platform Prime
Formerly Zing

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What is Azul Platform Prime?

Azul Systems headquartered in Sunnyvale is exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). They build fully supported, standards-compliant runtimes that help enable Java-based businesses. Their services include Azul Platform Prime (formerly Zing), a JVM with "better behavior"…

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Engineer in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees
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What is Azul Platform Prime?

Azul Systems headquartered in Sunnyvale is exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). They build fully supported, standards-compliant runtimes that help enable Java-based businesses. Their services include Azul Platform Prime (formerly Zing), a JVM with "better behavior"…

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Product Details

What is Azul Platform Prime?

A Java platform that aims to cut infrastructure costs in half.

Azul Platform Prime boosts the performance and scalability of the user's Java ecosystem with an optimized runtime that maximizes performance while driving down infrastructure costs. From big data to payment processing, the demand of today’s advanced applications creates untenable infrastructure costs for the enterprise. Azul Platform Prime transforms the economics of deploying these applications in the cloud, with the goal of driving down costs to enable competitive advantage. With Azul Platform Prime’s C4 Collector, users can run two to five times more transactions through the infrastructure—without pauses, jitters, or timeouts. - Get more transactions from the same hardware and accelerate Java performance, even as loads increase. - Slash capital expenses for servers, cut operating expenses for cloud services (with no over-provisioning), and drive continuous value. Maintain consistent response times, reduce system stalls, and provide better services— with less infrastructure.

The vendor's value proposition:

  • Performance - Get more transactions from the same hardware and accelerate Java performance, even as loads increase.
  • Savings - Slash capital expenses for servers, cut operating expenses for cloud services (with no over-provisioning), and drive continuous value.
  • Happy users - Maintain consistent response times, reduce system stalls, and provide better services—all with less infrastructure.

Azul Platform Prime Features

  • Supported: Support for Eclipse Temurin builds
  • Supported: Access to stabilized builds (security-only)
  • Supported: Out-of-cycle critical fixes
  • Supported: SLA for quarterly updates (guaranteed access)
  • Supported: Patent and non-contamination indemnifcation
  • Supported: Features enhancements (e.g. FIPS 140-2, MIPS support, Monotype fonts)
  • Supported: Tiered support services (Standard, Premium, Platinum)
  • Supported: Optimized OpenJDK build with higher throughput and carrying capacity
  • Supported: C4 pauseless garbage collector for nearly any size heap (1GB to 8TB)
  • Supported: Hyper-optimized Falcon JIT compiler (LLVM)
  • Supported: ReadyNow! warmup accelerator
  • Supported: System tools to optimize performance on older Linux versions
  • Supported: Cloud Native Compiler to offload JIT compilation

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The Java platform for the Modern Cloud Enterprise.

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Azul Platform Prime Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

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Frequently Asked Questions

Azul Systems headquartered in Sunnyvale is exclusively focused on Java and the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). They build fully supported, standards-compliant runtimes that help enable Java-based businesses. Their services include Azul Platform Prime (formerly Zing), a JVM with "better behavior" enabling sustained performance, fast warmup and predictable latency without GC pauses, jitter or application timeouts. Zing can be deployed in an on-prem data center or on the Cloud.

GraalVM, Oracle Java SE, and IBM Semeru Runtime are common alternatives for Azul Platform Prime.

Reviewers rate Performance highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Azul Platform Prime are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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April 26, 2024

Azul Platform Prime is really great products in terms of cost effectiveness.

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used Azul Platform Prime as replacement for previous products that uses Non AZUL mainly for WebLogic systems. One of the business problem addressed was on the cost savings part, that was quite a lot of savings, and the another one is we have save a lot time addressing the of bug fixes on the systems that WebLogic systems.
Pros and Cons
  • Improved real-time JVM
  • Cost effective
  • product support
  • Improve security feature
  • It would be helpful if there is online test drive or simulator
  • Better garbage collection option
Likelihood to Recommend
Azul Platform Prime is really great products in terms of cost effectiveness, it will bring more savings to the company. It is worth it with the (ROI) Returns of Investments. For us Azul JDK works well for servers e.g. RedHat Linux and Windows (version 10 and 11) clients workstations.
Return on Investment
  • A lot of OPEX savings
  • Easy annual license renewal subscription
  • Standard product usage since it is compatible across different Operating Systems.
Performance
10
I could not say much, but since we use AZUL platform we have more stable environment. Less maintenance for systems using Azul, minimal complaints from clients.
Other Software Used
April 11, 2023

Excellent Java platform

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Sonali Rungta Sharda
Digital Communications Professional
Tata Consultancy Services (Computer Software, 5001-10,000 employees)
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Azul Platform Prime is a highly optimized JVM and elastic runtime that breaks traditional Java scale barriers and provides applications with improvement in Java responsiveness, scale, and throughput. We use it for Java based applications which have enhanced scalability and reliability needs
Pros and Cons
  • Scalability
  • Cloud native security
  • reliability
  • higher throughput
  • newer vulnerabilities got added
  • Integration with Apache Hadoop should show errors more clearly
  • Integration with Apache Spark also need errors defined more clearly
Likelihood to Recommend
I had a few hiccups when integrating Azul Platform Prime with Apache Hadoop and Spark but other than that it is an excellent solution
Performance
10
Good features, Higher throughput, improved security
Support Rating
10
April 10, 2023

Azul Prime honest review

Kailas Andhale | TrustRadius Reviewer
Kailas Andhale
Software Engineer
Qualys (Computer & Network Security, 501-1000 employees)
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I couldn’t see much impact on performance, but I saw after moving to Azul Zing, GC logs started flooding my console, even after taking proper care. Also the support from Azul team during initial days was highly poor. Even now, the support is average as my team faced issues, they were not so satisfied with the support.
Pros and Cons
  • Costing
  • Support
  • GC logging
Likelihood to Recommend
If you want some low cost JDK provider where you need the frequent updates as well, you can go ahead for Azul Zing instead of OpenJDK. But if budget is not a concern, I would recommend going for some well known company such as Oracle. Also if you are using Azul for production, make sure to use it for Dev ENV too so as to reproduce issues.
Return on Investment
  • Reduced infra cost than Oracle
Performance
7
It’s just average, same as other providers. Rather High CPU usage spikes are seen sometimes and also CPU and memory usage is increased for same throughput
Support Rating
7
Support was way too poor during initial time. Now it has become average.
Alternatives Considered
Oracle was costlier whereas OpenJDK had less frequent updates. Azul was average of both of them, so it was choosen.
Other Software Used
October 05, 2022

Great optimization for large JVM infrastructures

Keith Sader | TrustRadius Reviewer
Keith Sader
Senior Manager, Ad Server
GumGum (Marketing & Advertising, 201-500 employees)
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Azul Prime to reduce latency and increase EC2 instance efficiency withing a real time bidding platform. Speed is life for any real time system and any ad serving platform and we're looking to extract any efficiencies we can.
Pros and Cons
  • JVM memory allocation and garbage collection
  • Developer monitoring tools
  • Customer support
  • Cloud level payments. This was a manual process for us and them.
  • Provide either default Docker containers for applications or Amazon AMIs
  • Add some hands-on training courses for their dev tooling.
Likelihood to Recommend
Azul helped use reduce and more efficiently use our AWS EC2 resources. We approached them in Q3 of 2021 with the goal of reducing our overall latency on the JVM 8 platform. They managed to do that for us in such a way that we could expand our options within EC2 for machine architectures and take advantage of additional resources on existing infrastructure that OpenJDK could not at that time. I'd recommend the platform for teams that are looking to focus on their business problems and not wanting to allocate engineering staff to be full time JVM engineers. I'd also recommend them for companies that have a large extant JVM systems that want a fairly easy way to optimize their current systems without entire rewrites.
Return on Investment
  • Improved stability during our seasonal busy period
  • Increased efficiency of AWS EC2 resources - we could use all of the memory on the machines
  • Took the JVM optimization burden off of the engineering staff.
Performance
9
Azul has better JVM garbage collection on machines with huge amounts of memory that the OSS version of Java doesn't handle.
Support Rating
9
Prime support has been responsive in helping us tune our JVM parameters and diagnose any lingering Java resource issues.
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