AWS: Containers: ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

ECR is AWS Docker registry service that is scalable, secure and reliable images. AWS ECR supports private docker repositories with resource-based permission using AWS IAM for specific users or EC2 instances. Users can use Docker to push, pull or manage images. Below are the components of ECR

• Registry: AWS ECR Registry is provided to each of the AWS accounts; you can create image repositories in your registry

• Authorization Token: Your Docker client must authenticate as an AWS user to access registries to push, pull images

• Repository: Contains Docker images

• Repository Policy: You can control access to repositories & images within them

• Image: You can use the images locally on your system or AWS ECS task definitions