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Wasn't Amazon Linux 2 something similar? Or I'm mixing it up https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/ https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/
by haunter 6y ago
Wasn't Amazon Linux 2 something similar? Or I'm mixing it up https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/ https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-2/
- tootie 6y agoSeems like a similar goal, but the difference is that Bottlerocket is targeted at containers and Amazon Linux is targeted at EC2.
- acdha 6y agoAmazon Linux 2 is an AWS-optimized Linux distribution but it's a full distribution you're used to — RPM-based, generally compatible with RHEL/Centos, etc. — and that has the usual benefits and costs. You can customize it as much as any other Linux distribution but you're taking on the corresponding level of effort to secure and operate it. If all you run are containers, that's overhead for things you're not really using and it also means that you're going to be slower to update things like the kernel and system libraries since there's more to test and backwards compatibility is a big concern.