Bottlerocket Overview

Bottlerocket

Linux-based operating system purpose-built to run containers

Why Bottlerocket?

Bottlerocket is a Linux-based open-source operating system that is purpose-built by Amazon Web Services for running containers. Bottlerocket includes only the essential software required to run containers, and ensures that the underlying software is always secure. With Bottlerocket, customers can reduce maintenance overhead and automate their workflows by applying configuration settings consistently as nodes are upgraded or replaced.

Bottlerocket is now generally available at no cost as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

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Increased uptime for container applications

Updates to Bottlerocket are applied in a single step and can be rolled back if necessary, resulting in lower error rates and improved uptime for container applications. By contrast, general-purpose operating systems are typically updated package-by-package.

Open-source development model enables custom builds

Bottlerocket’s open development model enables customers and partners to produce custom builds, for example, builds that support their preferred orchestrators. Changes in these custom builds can be contributed back for inclusion to the Bottlerocket open source project.

Lower management overhead and operational costs

Updates to Bottlerocket can be automated using container orchestration services such as Amazon EKS, which lowers management overhead and reduces operational costs.

Improved security and resource utilization

Bottlerocket includes only the essential software to run containers, which improves resource utilization and reduces the attack surface compared to general-purpose operating systems

Optimized performance through AWS integrations

AWS provided builds of Bottlerocket are optimized to run on Amazon EC2 and include support for the latest Amazon EC2 instance capabilities. They also have built-in integrations with AWS services for container orchestration, registries, and observability.

CIS hardening out of the box

Amazon Web Services’s Bottlerocket has been certified by the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) to ship secure as hardened to CIS Bottlerocket Benchmark v1.0.0. Organizations that leverage Bottlerocket can now be assured that it will successfully run on a CIS hardened environment.

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Sumo Logic

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AWS Partners

These AWS Partners have run quality assurance and security tests on their software and provide support for their products on Bottlerocket. To learn more about how to run these Partner applications on Bottlerocket, check out our AWS Partner Bottlerocket Blog.

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H2O.ai

H2O.ai has greatly benefited from using AWS Bottlerocket, enhancing our infrastructure’s security, reducing compute overhead, and increasing scalability while decreasing operational burden. Bottlerocket’s lightweight design and focus on container optimization have allowed us to streamline our cloud operations and focus on delivering cutting-edge predictive and generative AI solutions for our customers.

SVP of Data and Analytic, Lennar

Lee Slezak

AppDynamics

AppDynamics is excited to partner with AWS to extend full-stack observability to containerized applications on Bottlerocket. This purpose-built container operating system makes it simple to adopt agile methodologies that accelerate app development and simplify mobility, scale and security. Combined with AppDynamics (available on the AWS Marketplace) our customers can correlate application performance, user experience and security insights to key business outcomes and empower DevOps teams with the information needed to align innovation and strategy.

SVP of Data and Analytic, Lennar

Lee Slezak

Datadog

Container-optimized operating systems will give dev teams the additional speed and efficiency to run higher throughput workloads with better security and uptime. We are excited to work with AWS on Bottlerocket, so that as customers take advantage of the increased scale they can continue to monitor these ephemeral environments with confidence.

SVP of Data and Analytic, Lennar

Lee Slezak

Dynatrace

We are thrilled to extend the Dynatrace partnership with AWS to Bottlerocket-based Kubernetes clusters. Bottlerocket is now fully integrated with Dynatrace, unifying observability and security for our mutual customers with one platform. We enable DevOps and SRE teams to quickly understand, manage and optimize the health and performance of containerized workloads. Plus, DAVIS AI adds automatic management and forecasting for all Kubernetes operations.

SVP of Data and Analytic, Lennar

Lee Slezak

Epsagon

Epsagon provides a single interface for monitoring, tracing and logging microservices running across containers, virtual machines, and any other compute service. Epsagon is proud to partner with AWS to deliver comprehensive visibility for containerized workloads running on the Bottlerocket operating system. With Bottlerocket, AWS customers can streamline their container infrastructure, and with Epsagon, customers get end to end observability for their containerized microservices.

SVP of Data and Analytic, Lennar

Lee Slezak

Kong

Running Kong, a sub-millisecond performance and lightweight Gateway, on a container-optimized operating system like Bottlerocket becomes an important technical combination to provide not just a faster, but a more secure platform for API Management. We are very excited to be working with AWS and Bottlerocket OS.

SVP of Data and Analytic, Lennar

Lee Slezak