Azul has achieved a breakthrough in cloud deployment with its high-performance Java platform, Azul Platform Prime.
For the first time, over 10,000 Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) from a single enterprise are now collaborating in real time, sharing performance optimisations to dramatically improve application speed, scaling, and efficiency.
A leading global company has deployed hundreds of applications and microservices using Platform Prime’s Optimiser Hub, a feature that allows JVMs to exchange performance insights.
The result is faster startup times, smoother scaling, and more efficient compute usage, leading to over 20% savings on cloud costs. In the entertainment sector, another enterprise has used Optimiser Hub to cut CPU cores and pod counts for mission-critical services by 25%–30%. Optimiser Hub works as a customer-managed service with no changes required to existing Java workloads.
Java applications in modern cloud environments face persistent challenges. Fleets of thousands of JVMs must meet strict performance standards, scale elastically, and restart rapidly during updates. Traditional JVMs operate in isolation, often underperforming and creating unpredictable spikes in resource demand. Enterprises respond by over-provisioning, driving up cloud expenses.
According to the 2025 State of Java Survey & Report, 71% of respondents report more than 20% of their cloud compute capacity goes unused. Optimiser Hub solves this by enabling JVMs across a fleet to learn from one another, centralising optimisations and maximising efficiency.
Azul Platform Prime combines the Zing JVM, a high-speed, scalable OpenJDK build, with Optimiser Hub. The hub includes two key services:
- Cloud Native Compiler – Centralises just-in-time (JIT) compilation, reducing CPU load on individual JVMs. By caching compiled code, it accelerates runtime performance, allowing smaller instances and lower cloud costs.
- ReadyNow – Tackles Java’s warm-up lag by reusing JIT compiler profiling data. ReadyNow Orchestrator ensures applications use the optimal profile, maintaining responsiveness during traffic spikes, retail rushes, gaming surges, or market opens. It supports faster CI/CD redeployments, smoother fleet rollouts, and quicker recovery from failures.
Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO of Azul, emphasised the platform’s impact: “Java powers the backbone of the digital economy, but performance challenges with traditional JDKs have led enterprises to overprovision cloud resources and adopt complex operational practices.
“With the centralised services of Optimiser Hub, Azul Platform Prime has eliminated long-standing tradeoffs of performance and cost by enabling JVMs to learn from each other and collaborate across entire fleets in production, delivering faster, smoother application experiences while driving down cloud costs by 20%+. Optimiser Hub is a must-have for every business running JVM-based, mission-critical workloads in the cloud.”
Azul, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is the only company fully dedicated to Java. Its solutions power millions of developers, hundreds of millions of devices, and top global enterprises, including 36% of the Fortune 100, leading banks, and brands such as BMW, Mastercard, Salesforce, and Workday.
