Question for any Amazon folks here that may know. Is this akin to something like Atomic or CoreOS that is used within Openshift as the Master or Worker node OS or is this more like the UBI (Universal Base Image) that can be used as the base image of a container via "FROM" within a dockerfile?
You don't need Amazon folks, just read the material.
This is not a container base image, it's a container host OS. It is somewhat similar to Atomic or CoreOS, but in some ways it seems to be a bit more of a radical redesign than those.