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AWS corretto documentation change

Service: corretto · 2026-02-25 · Documentation low

File: corretto/latest/corretto-21-ug/amazon-linux-install.md

Summary

Removed steps for enabling yum repository on Amazon Linux 2 and deleted installation/uninstallation examples for JRE and JDK packages

Security assessment

Documentation cleanup removing deprecated configuration steps. No security-related content was added or modified.

Diff

diff --git a/corretto/latest/corretto-21-ug/amazon-linux-install.md b/corretto/latest/corretto-21-ug/amazon-linux-install.md
index bec52224a..3c3ac6431 100644
--- a//corretto/latest/corretto-21-ug/amazon-linux-install.md
+++ b//corretto/latest/corretto-21-ug/amazon-linux-install.md
@@ -13,23 +12,0 @@ This topic describes how to install and uninstall Amazon Corretto 21 on a host o
-  1. Enable the yum repository in Amazon Linux 2. This is not required on Amazon Linux 2022 and later. 
-
-###### Example
-    
-        sudo amazon-linux-extras enable corretto8
-
-  2. You can install Amazon Corretto 21 as either the runtime environment (JRE) or the full development environment (JDK). The development environment includes the runtime environment. 
-
-Install Amazon Corretto 21 as JRE.
-
-###### Example
-    
-        sudo yum install java-21-amazon-corretto
-
-Install Amazon Corretto 21 as JDK.
-
-###### Example
-    
-        sudo yum install java-21-amazon-corretto-devel
-
-
-
-
@@ -115,14 +91,0 @@ You can uninstall Amazon Corretto 21 with the following commands.
-Uninstall JRE:
-
-###### Example
-    
-    
-    sudo yum remove java-21-amazon-corretto
-
-Uninstall JDK:
-
-###### Example
-    
-    
-    sudo yum remove java-21-amazon-corretto-devel
-