Amazon Elastic Container Registry

7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Amazon Elastic Container Registry first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 0 are mixed.

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7first-hand users
7in production
endorse 2mixed 0regret 0uses, no opinion

“We switched many images to use the ecr.aws registry ... Our k8s cluster was on EKS and it worked out very well.”

endorse · production · fhaldridge7 · 2023-09-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“we use AWS ECR for caching... we never hit any rate-limits, too!”

endorse · production · theamk · 2023-03-15 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Push to ECR/S3 by human.”

neutral · production · crinkly · 2025-07-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“every time an ECR instance is created we must enable ScanOnPush”

neutral · production · stevekemp · 2021-12-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“Right now we are pulling a postgres:10 container down from our ECR on every run so definitely some low hanging fruit around that.”

neutral · production · harrisonjackson · 2020-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a recent Docker/AWS/ECR/ECS system I worked on, much of which seemed like a whole lot of useless work”

neutral · production · lkrubner · 2018-11-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“We run a "private Docker registry" ... backed by Elastic Container Registry.”

neutral · production · cookiecaper · 2017-04-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?