For server apps you don’t even need a Docker image or AMI, a fat JAR will usually do 90% of what you need. That said if you want to keep your JDK up to date vi

For server apps you don’t even need a Docker image or AMI, a fat JAR will usually do 90% of what you need. That said if you want to keep your JDK up to date via Docker or AMI of course that’s fine. a jlink JAR does the same thing but I can see the desire for wanting to decouple runtime upgrades from code upgrades.