# AWS unleashes a new homegrown Linux that's good enough to bottle

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**Created:** [2 September 2020 19:17 UTC](https://forum.devtalk.com/t/aws-unleashes-a-new-homegrown-linux-thats-good-enough-to-bottle/1471 "2020-09-02T19:17:02Z")\
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> **[AWS unleashes a new homegrown Linux that's good enough to bottle](https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/01/aws_bottlerocket_linux_for_containers/)**
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> Contain your enthusiasm, because ‘Bottlerocket’ is for containers and containers only

> The [Hello World](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/announcing-the-general-availability-of-bottlerocket-an-open-source-linux-distribution-purpose-built-to-run-containers/) post announcing the distro said AWS “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”.