Azul today announced a major advancement in cloud deployment at scale with its high-performance Java platform, Azul Platform Prime. A leading global enterprise has deployed hundreds of applications and microservices across 10,000+ Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) using Platform Prime’s Optimizer Hub, enabling fleet-wide performance intelligence that delivers cloud cost savings of more than 20%.

Another top entertainment company recently deployed Optimizer Hub to optimize Java-based critical services, cutting CPU core and pod counts by 25–30%. Optimizer Hub, included with Platform Prime as a customer-managed service, requires no changes to existing Java applications or JVM-based workloads.

Tackling the Limits of Traditional JVMs

Cloud-native Java applications often run across thousands of instances and containers, but traditional JVMs optimize in isolation, leading to unpredictable performance and inflated cloud costs. According to the 2025 State of Java Survey, 71% of enterprises say over 20% of their cloud compute capacity remains unused.

With Optimizer Hub, JVMs across a fleet collaborate by sharing optimizations and learnings, achieving unprecedented levels of scale, elasticity, resiliency, and efficiency. This enables enterprises to deliver smoother customer experiences, autoscale faster during demand spikes, and restart containerized microservices more efficiently—all while controlling cloud costs.

Azul Platform Prime with Optimizer Hub

Platform Prime includes Azul Zing, the world’s fastest and most resilient Java runtime, and integrates Optimizer Hub to supercharge performance in cloud-native environments. Optimizer Hub comprises two key services:

Cloud Native Compiler – Centralizes JIT compilation and caching, reducing CPU workloads on JVMs, enabling smaller container sizes, and delivering faster, smoother performance.

ReadyNow Orchestrator – Solves Java’s warm-up problem by reusing optimization data across JVM runs, ensuring consistent responsiveness, faster CI/CD rollouts, and higher SLA attainment from the first request onward.

By combining centralized intelligence with runtime innovation, Azul is transforming how enterprises deploy Java at cloud scale—delivering superior user experiences, faster performance, and measurable cost savings.

“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,” said Scott Sellers, co-founder and CEO at Azul. “With the centralized services of Optimizer 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%+. Optimizer Hub is a must-have for every business running JVM-based, mission-critical workloads in the cloud.”