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Samartha Chandrashekar

Author: Samartha Chandrashekar

Samartha is a Product Manager at AWS. He helped conceive and build Bottlerocket. Prior to Bottlerocket he worked on Amazon Linux and is currently involved with EC2 Image Builder and a number of application modernization products.

Announcing the General Availability of Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers

As our customers increasingly adopt containers to run their workloads, we saw a need for a Linux distribution designed from the ground up to run containers with a focus on security, operations, and manageability at scale. Customers needed an operating system that would give them the ability to manage thousands of hosts running containers with […]