Amazon ECR: Building, Pushing & Scanning Images

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How ECR fits into the container pipeline as the registry ECS and EKS both pull from.

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Key points

  • ECR is private-by-default and IAM-integrated for push/pull access control
  • Tag images with both a semantic version and Git SHA for traceability back to source
  • Enable image scanning to catch known CVEs before a vulnerable image reaches production
  • Use lifecycle policies to auto-expire old untagged images and control storage cost