Amazon Corretto 18 End of Life Date
Amazon Corretto 18 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data reconciled from official vendor documentation and endoflife.date at every build; the source of each date is on the product page.
Amazon Corretto 18 was released on February 26, 2022 and support ended on October 18, 2022 — a supported lifespan of 8 months, in line with the 8 months median for Amazon Corretto releases. It was not an LTS release; Amazon Corretto reserves longer patch windows for its LTS versions. The last patch it will ever receive is 18.0.2.9.1, published July 19, 2022 — 3 months before support ended. It has been without security patches for 3 years and 11 months. 8 newer Amazon Corretto releases have shipped since.
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Compare Options →| Version | Latest | EOL Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 LTS | 8.504.01.1 | Dec 31, 2030 | Active |
| 11 LTS | 11.0.32.10.1 | Jan 31, 2032 | Active |
| 15 | 15.0.2.7.1 | Apr 20, 2021 | EOL |
| 16 | 16.0.2.7.1 | Oct 19, 2021 | EOL |
| 17 LTS | 17.0.20.10.1 | Oct 31, 2029 | Active |
| → 18 | 18.0.2.9.1 | Oct 18, 2022 | EOL |
| 19 | 19.0.2.7.1 | Apr 19, 2023 | EOL |
| 20 | 20.0.2.10.1 | Oct 17, 2023 | EOL |
What does Amazon Corretto 18 end of life mean?
When Amazon Corretto 18 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: A CVE-based scan does not show the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Some scanners flag unsupported versions of common products, but coverage varies, and none of them give you the date in advance. Running Amazon Corretto 18 past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
Migrate to Amazon Corretto 27 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.