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Amazon ECR Container Registry

April 5, 2026

Elastic Container Registry

Fully managed Docker container registry with vulnerability scanning.

ECR Developer Workflow

aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-stdin 123456.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
docker tag myapp:latest 123456.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/myapp:latest
docker push 123456.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/myapp:latest

Lifecycle Management

  • Expire untagged images after 30 days
  • Keep last 10 tagged images per repo
  • Cross-region replication enabled
  • Image vulnerability scanning results