Alibaba Cloud Container Registry

Spec sheet

What it does

Alibaba Cloud Container Registry is a fully managed service for storing, securing and distributing container images and cloud-native artifacts.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

API

ACR exposes OpenAPI version 2018-12-01 with public endpoints in the form cr.{regionId}.aliyuncs.com and VPC endpoints in the form cr-vpc.{regionId}.aliyuncs.com.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

API extensibility

Developers can self-sign API requests when SDKs are insufficient, although Alibaba warns that implementing the signing mechanism is complex and may take about five business days.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Artifact formats

Enterprise editions support multi-architecture Linux, Windows and Arm images, Helm Charts v2/v3 and OCI-compliant artifacts.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

CI/CD integrations

The product can build images from Alibaba Cloud Code, GitHub or Bitbucket repositories and integrates with Alibaba Container Service, CodePipeline and YunXiao.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Company founded

LinkedIn states Alibaba Cloud was founded in 2009.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company headquarters

LinkedIn lists Alibaba Cloud headquarters in Hangzhou, China.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Company ownership

G2 identifies the seller as Alibaba and lists ownership ticker BABA.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Company size

LinkedIn classifies Alibaba Cloud as having 10,001 or more employees and shows about 5,326 employees on its page.Read 15 Oct 2026 · linkedin.com

Deployment integration

Integration with Alibaba Container Service can automatically redeploy applications when new images become available.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Documentation depth

The documentation includes product comparisons, quotas, security guides, integration instructions, API operation references and product announcements.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Encryption

Alibaba Cloud states that Enterprise Edition images are encrypted at rest in OSS using AES-256 server-side encryption.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Global distribution

Enterprise Advanced adds global synchronization, peer-to-peer distribution and on-demand lazy pulling for large deployments.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Image lifecycle

The service manages images across their lifecycle and provides image download URLs for internet, intranet and VPC users in different regions.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Image signing

Enterprise Advanced supports namespace-level automatic signing with Alibaba Cloud KMS and signature verification in ACK through kritis-validation-hook.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Licence

Alibaba describes ACR as based on open-source technologies and compatible with DevOps tools, but the managed ACR service page specifies no open-source licence.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Limit: account verification and support

Trustpilot reviewers report rejected or slow identity verification, difficult account closure, billing surprises and unresponsive support across Alibaba Cloud services.Read 15 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com

Limit: documentation

G2 reviewers complain that documentation is lacking and that English coverage is incomplete.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Limit: setup experience

G2 category data shows Alibaba Container Registry's ease-of-setup score at 1.7/10, far below the 8.1/10 category average.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Managed service model

ACR is delivered as Alibaba Cloud infrastructure rather than a self-hostable registry package; the product page describes it as fully managed and gives no self-hosting distribution.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Network controls

Enterprise editions can restrict access to selected VPCs and CIDR ranges and record image operations in ActionTrail.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Notable news

Alibaba's Container Registry announcement log lists a May 2026 Personal Edition network-link upgrade and an April 2026 change to passwordless image pulling.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

PeerSpot coverage

PeerSpot reports 0.1% container-registry mindshare and says it has not collected any reviews for Alibaba Container Registry.Read 15 Oct 2026 · peerspot.com

Permission management

ACR provides centralized image-permission controls for sharing images without exposing them outside intended boundaries.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Personal Edition limitation

Personal Edition is public preview, free and intended for development or testing; Alibaba says it has no SLA or compensation and should not be used in production.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Praise: affordability

G2 reviewers repeatedly praise ACR as affordable compared with competitors such as AWS.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: image management

G2 reviewers describe the service as effective, complete and easy to use for managing application images.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Pricing limitation

Enterprise pricing is not listed as a fixed amount; Alibaba says the buy-page price varies by region and instance type, while OSS storage and internet outbound traffic are billed separately.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Rating on G2

4.7 out of 5 from 14 reviewsRead 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Gartner Peer Insights

5.0 out of 5 from 1 reviewRead 15 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Rating on Trustpilot

1.2 out of 5 from 100 reviews for Alibaba Cloud overallRead 15 Oct 2026 · uk.trustpilot.com

SDKs and IaC

Alibaba Cloud provides SDKs, CLI integration, OpenAPI Explorer and Resource Orchestration Service integration; SDK sample code is generated in OpenAPI Explorer.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

System prerequisite

Using Enterprise Edition requires an Alibaba Cloud account; routine API work is intended to use RAM users or RAM roles with granted permissions.Read 15 Oct 2026 · help.aliyun.com

Version control

Enterprise editions provide immutable versions and automatic tag-cleanup rules, while Personal Edition does not.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Vulnerability scanning

Built-in scanning can run automatically or manually and reports vulnerabilities by severity before deployment.Read 15 Oct 2026 · alibabacloud.com

Plans and prices

Every Alibaba Cloud Container Registry plan and price →

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