diff --git a/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/xml/DatapointHandler.java b/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/xml/DatapointHandler.java
index 43d3617874..73bf99029a 100644
--- a/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/xml/DatapointHandler.java
+++ b/apis/cloudwatch/src/main/java/org/jclouds/cloudwatch/xml/DatapointHandler.java
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ public class DatapointHandler extends ParseSax.HandlerForGeneratedRequestWithRes
    private Double doubleOrNull() {
       String string = currentText.toString().trim();
       if (!string.equals("")) {
-         return new Double(string);
+         return Double.valueOf(string);
       }
       return null;
    }
diff --git a/apis/elasticstack/src/main/java/org/jclouds/elasticstack/compute/ElasticStackComputeServiceAdapter.java b/apis/elasticstack/src/main/java/org/jclouds/elasticstack/compute/ElasticStackComputeServiceAdapter.java
index 53894d57fa..2f0c11ecb0 100644
--- a/apis/elasticstack/src/main/java/org/jclouds/elasticstack/compute/ElasticStackComputeServiceAdapter.java
+++ b/apis/elasticstack/src/main/java/org/jclouds/elasticstack/compute/ElasticStackComputeServiceAdapter.java
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ public class ElasticStackComputeServiceAdapter implements
                @Override
                public boolean apply(Image input) {
                   String toParse = input.getUserMetadata().get("size");
-                  return toParse != null && new Float(toParse) <= size;
+                  return toParse != null && Float.parseFloat(toParse) <= size;
                }
 
                @Override