AWS announced the new container operating system Bottlerocket. Focused on security, open-source, optimized for AWS integrations, and lower costs.

AWS Bottlerocket - https://aws.amazon.com/bottlerocket/

Bottlerocket GitHub - https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Bottlerocket Roadmap - https://github.com/orgs/bottlerocket-os/projects/1

Interview Deepak Sing VP of compute services at AWS - https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/04/bottlerocket-singh/

Some notable features include:

• API access for configuring your system, with secure out-of-band access methods when you need them.
• Updates based on partition flips, for fast and reliable system updates.
• Modeled configuration that's automatically migrated through updates.
• Security as a top priority.
• Open Source - open development model enables customers and partners to produce custom builds, for example, builds that support their preferred orchestrators.
• Lower costs as it will be bundled with EKS and ECS in the future
• Optimized performance through AWS integrations
• 3 years support after the GA release