Amazon ECR

Also known as
amazon-ecr

Available worldwide · Popular in: US

What is Amazon ECR?

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy your container software anywhere. Images remain highly available and reliably deployable with no upfront fees or commitments.

Independently observed

Amazon ECR pricing

Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
Usage-basedFree tier

Usage-based pricing for storage and data transfer. Free tier: 500 MB/month private storage (first year), 50 GB/month public storage, and tiered free data transfer limits.

Storage

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Per-GB storage for private and public repositories

Data Transfer

-

Per-GB data transferred to the internet

What Amazon ECR does

The capabilities that matter for container registries, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Deployment
Hosting
Cloud only
Standards
OCI Distribution Spec compliant
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Scope
Artifact types
Container images only
Security
Built-in vulnerability scanning
Image signing (Cosign/Notation)
SBOM generation / storage
-
Access
Fine-grained RBAC / robot accounts
Private repositories
Distribution
Geo-replication / mirroring
-
Pull-through cache / proxy
-
Integration
Native cloud IAM integration
-
Pricing
Pull-rate limits
Tiered by plan
UX
Web UI / console
Ops
High-availability deployment
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
  • Web
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

Integrations (1)

Independently observed
  • Amazon Inspector

Amazon ECR alternatives

Other container registries we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Amazon ECR, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 44 / 100
medium · 60%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities810.119.0
Security Posture200.214.1
Pricing Transparency800.053.8
Reliability500.063.2
Price Level800.032.6
Integrations90.060.5

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"rbac":true,"web_ui":true,"hosting":"cloud","image_signing":true,"private_repos":true,"artifact_types":"images","pull_rate_limits":"tiered","high_availability":true,"vulnerability_scanning":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count1mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Market

AttributeValueEvidence
Availability{"primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 50%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Modelfreemiummediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60%
PciYeshighsource · 2026-08-05 · 75%