AWS built SOCI and the fast-pull snapshotter to improve container image pull times — but they didn't keep it to themselves. Phil Estes explains why open source and upstream-first development were the only approaches that made sense.
The tools integrate directly with Containerd, work with any cluster (not just EKS), and improvements are flowing back into upstream core projects. You don't even need a custom snapshotter to benefit.
Watch the full interview: https://ku.bz/_ZLldHwVC
