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Amazon ECR: Container Image Registry

AWS's managed Docker/OCI image registry — where the container images that ECS and EKS actually pull from live, with IAM-based access control and vulnerability scanning built in.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain what ECR is and how it relates to Docker Hub or any other container registry
  • Push and pull an image to/from ECR using the Docker CLI and understand the authentication step involved
  • Describe ECR's image scanning feature and lifecycle policies
  • Understand how ECS/EKS task definitions reference an ECR image URI

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