AWS ECR in 3 Minutes

Overview

AWS ECR is a container registry service. It offers straightforward pricing with no upfront fees or commitments. The service is extremely easy to use. This is proven by the fact that it provides the commands you need to execute to push your container images into ECR from the AWS Console.

1. Create a Repository
2. Upload Container Image(s) to that Repository
3. Reference the Container Image(s)

Features

• 3rd Party Integrations
• Docker Support
• Image Replication
• Image Scanning
• Marketplace for Containers
• Open Container Initiative (OCI) Support
• Lifecycle Policies
• Public Container Gallery
• Tag Immutability
• Uses IAM for Access Control
• Uses KMS for Encryption
• Uses S3 for Availability/Durability

https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/features/

Integrations

• ECS
• EKS
• ElasticBeanstalk
• Lambda

Resources

• AWS ECR CloudFormation
• AWS ECR FAQs
• AWS ECR Private Documentation
• AWS ECR Public Documentation
• Docker Getting Started
• Play With Docker

Walkthrough

Create Image Repository

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/getting-started-console.html

Deploy Containerized Lambda

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-for-aws-lambda-container-image-support/

Using Amazon ECR with the AWS CLI

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/getting-started-cli.html