Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry) is a container image registry managed by AWS.
Features
- ECR provides private container image repositories.
- You can integrate ECR with ECS or EKS to pull images.
- It can be secured with resource-based permissions via IAM.
- Supported Formats
- Docker Images
- OCI (Open Container Initiative) Images
- OCI artifacts
Components
- Authorization Token
- required to push/pull images to/from the ECR Repository
- Repository
- Image storage
- Repository Polices
- access control to repositories and images
Image Scanning
- ECR scans images and identifies security vulnerabilities.
- You can set the repository setting to scan images on push.