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Amazon Elastic Container Registry

Ch 146.5of 53 Container Registries
  1. 1Runs onAPI, Web
  2. 2CostsNot stated by the maker
  3. 3Image scanningYes
  4. 4OCI artifactsYes
  5. 5Immutable tagsYes
  6. 6Retention policiesYes
  7. 7Replication scopemulti-region
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Overview

Amazon Elastic Container Registry is ranked #14 of 53 in container registries on Specifiction. It runs on API, Web.

Amazon Elastic Container Registry plans and pricing

All plans
Pay-as-you-go Not published By data stored and data transferred to the internet; no upfront fees or commitments. 500 MB/month private repository storage for new ECR customers for one year · 50 GB/month always-free public repository storage · Public repository internet transfer free up to 500 GB/month anonymously or 5 TB/month with an AWS account aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026

Compared on container registries

Free plan
Noaws.amazon.com
Paid from
$0.10/moaws.amazon.com
Image scanning
Yesaws.amazon.com
OCI artifacts
Yesaws.amazon.com
Immutable tags
Yesaws.amazon.com
Retention policies
Yesaws.amazon.com
Replication scope
multi-regionaws.amazon.com

Facts

Purpose
Amazon ECR is a fully managed container registry for storing, sharing, and deploying container software and artifacts.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Orchestrators
ECR integrates with Amazon ECS and Amazon EKS so they can retrieve images specified in task or pod definitions.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Standards and tools
ECR supports OCI standards, the Docker Registry HTTP API V2, and Docker CLI commands such as push, pull, list, and tag.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Development environments
AWS says ECR can be accessed from Docker environments in the cloud, on-premises, or on a local machine.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Public gallery
The ECR public gallery hosts publicly shared container software, including base images, Kubernetes add-ons, and Helm charts; AWS accounts are not required to search or pull public images.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Third-party integrations
ECR integrates with third-party developer tools and can be included in continuous integration and delivery workflows.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Image cache
Pull through cache repositories retrieve, store, and sync artifacts from publicly accessible container registries.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Image security
ECR supports managed container image signing, which can be configured in the console or through an API call to sign new images pushed to selected repositories.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Access control and encryption
ECR uses IAM policies to control access to private images, transfers images over HTTPS, and encrypts images at rest using S3 server-side encryption, with an option to use an AWS KMS key.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Vulnerability scanning
AWS describes using the integrated Amazon Inspector service to automate container image vulnerability assessment and remediation ticket routing.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Availability and replication
ECR stores images and artifacts in Amazon S3 and can automatically replicate them to multiple AWS Regions.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Pricing limit
For data transfer exceeding 500 TB per month, AWS directs customers to contact it.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Compliance
AWS says it supports 143 security standards and compliance certifications, including PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-3, and NIST 800-171.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026
Intended users
AWS describes its customers as ranging from startups and enterprises to nonprofits and governments.aws.amazon.com · 2 Oct 2026

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