Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) Reviews & Product Details

AWS Cloud is scalable , reliable and has massive service ecosystem. It allows you to spin up environments within minutes and automate deployments with cloud formation of terraform and manage infrastructure through a highly configurable IAM model Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing structure can be confusing and hard to estimate for complex setups Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like best about ECR is its ability) to integrate with other AWS services, like ECS, EKS, and Lambda, which makes containerized application workflows smooth. It also provides scalable storage for container images without having to manage the infrastructure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I felt it was very much less flexible than other registries than Docker Hub, Nexus, JFrog Artifactory. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ECR completely managed by AWS and it is very easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

To be honest I haven't seen any dislikes as such. ECR ie going in right direction and is and other registries which are available in market Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. As the name suggest Amazon Elastic Container Registry is a hub to store images and It seamlessly integrates with other AWS services because of AWS ecosystem.

2. It provides public, private and secure image storage options.

3. It also provides versioning options for the image.

4. Integrates with AWS IAM for fine grained access control.

5. It scales horizontally to store increasing number of images.

6. It also provides options to delete images after a specific amount of time which saves a lot of space and billing.

7. Provides private repositories options which ensures secure access to image by user and service only. Allows tagging option.

8. Amazon Container Registry works really well in CICD implementations as it integrates really well with lots of CICD tools.

9. Overall it us very easy to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. I dislike that AWS ECR is region specific and if we need to implement a multiregion deployement we need to make copy of image in all those regions.

2. There is one issue that we faced is that, there is a limitation to the number of layers in docker image. If we need to store large images then it is difficult.

3. Also the costing is complicated as depend on size of image and number of times it is accessed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Scalable solution best cloud and nice service Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Costly but need to improve to other regions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As its from AWS and AWS already has a powerful EKS(Elastic k8s service) which works really well with ECR for storing the container images and allow to build and deploy the application in a easy manner.

its time based deletion policy helps you to delete and save the cost of storing the images in ECR

it has a good AWS CLI support and documentation to download and upload images to ECR as well as perform other operations

it support both the public and private repositories Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although it supports the public repositories to host the public inages but still its not widely adopted as docker hub

Sometime its slow espeically when you want to download and upload images from the locations where its far from its hosted repositories which is the case in most of the distributed development teams Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Amazon ECR is one of the best Docker container registry I have been using as an option to store any type of docker images for my project. It easily integrates with other resources of AWS ecosystem for eg Amazon Elastic container service,Amazon Elastic Kubernate service etc. Its highly scalable so I can store any number of docker images without worrying about storage space.While pulling the docker images from registry its very easy and reliable and having very low latency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ECR is a pay as you go service, so I have found it little bit costly and risky for newbies for storing large number of images without having any idea of the total bill.Also pulling the images from ECR through cli is little bit complex. Beside these there is nothing such to dislike about ECR. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very helpful for integration with amazon services like ec2, ecs and eks. It helped me in building custom images that was used by eks cluster where the implementation was easy as the deployment only needed appropriate access to the ecr image. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That compared to other cloud platforms like azure ACR (az acr import command), it does not have a feature to import/copy the images from docker hub to ACR. One need to login to docker, pull the image to local, then login to ecr and then push it to the registry which i feel might be great if there is a single command to acheive this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very easy to configure and use. Any image can be quickly downloaded or uploaded to the repository with any tag.

Our use case for the ECR is to keep the docker images from our applications that are then deployed to AWS Elastic Beanstalk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The purge system by tags can be complicated to configure and you may delete some needed image due to that configuration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ECR makes it easy to deploy containers to other AWS services such as Lambda and ECS. It is easy to use and the cost is acceptable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The GUI of ecr in AWS console can be improved. like more filters to help locate a repo. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.