- Published on July 18, 2021
- In AI Features
AWS Makes Bottlerocket AMI Generally Available. What Does It Mean?
Bottlerocket has universally optimised running of containerised applications.
- By Meenal Sharma
Amazon Web Services has recently announced the general availability of the Amazon ECS optimised Bottlerocket Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on all commercial AWS platforms. Bottlerocket is an open-source OS based on Linux, which is purpose-built to run containers. Bottlerocket includes only the software needed to run a container. It comes with a single step update mechanism that enables user to improve security posture and reduce maintenance required for Amazon ECS clusters. With the new release, users can also automate OS updates for Bottlerocket, improve application availability, and reduce disruptions.
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Last year, Amazon had announced the general availability of Bottlerocket purpose-built to run containers.
Bottlerocket software
Bottlerocket's root filesystem is read-only and is backed by dm-verity. It comes with Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) policies for additional isolation. Users can use AWS CloudF
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Meenal Sharma
I am a journalism undergrad who loves playing basketball and writing about finance and technology. I believe in the power of words.
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