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