I’m (finally) upgrading several projects to Java 17, the current LTS version. I like to deploy my Lambda functions as container images because it keeps the devops simple — everything is a container! — but there still isn’t an officially-supported base image Java 17, even though it’s been out for almost a year. So I made one and released it to the community. You can find the images on ECR Public Gallery and DockerHub, and the source code is on GitHub. If you’ve been waiting to adopt Java 17 until there was Lambda support, then these base images will let you get started.
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