Java is for many years one of the most popular programming languages, but it used to have hard times in the Serverless Community. Java is known for its high cold start times and high memory footprint. For both you have to pay to the cloud providers of your choice. That's why  most developers tried to avoid using Java for such use cases. But the times change: Community and cloud providers improve things steadily for Java developers. In this talk we look at the features and possibilities AWS cloud provider offers for the Java developers and look the most popular Java frameworks, like Micronaut, Quarkus and Spring (Boot) and look how (AOT compiler and GraalVM Native Image play a huge role) they address Serverless challenges and enable Java for broad usage in the Serverless world. We'll also look into AWS Lambda SnapStart feature based on CRaC (Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint) project which also reduces the cold start time of Java Serverless application on AWS. We also look into the tools which help us figure out the optimal balance between Lambda memory footprint, invocation time and execution cost.

In this talk we look at the features and possibilities AWS cloud provider offers for the Java developers and look the most popular Java frameworks, like Micronaut, Quarkus and Spring (Boot) and look how they address Serverless challenges and enable Java for broad usage in the Serverless world.