Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public: A New Public Container Registry

Nice to see more competition in the container registry space, I guess companies will be comparing the free/paid tiers from different providers a lot now.

Looking at this announcement seems like their pricing on data pulled rather than number of image pulls.

And, I guess unsurprisingly, if you're running in AWS you get unlimited pulls from this public registry, so it'll be better if you're already an AWS house.

I wonder how they'll deal with typo-squatting risks...

I doubt this will be more popular than GitHub's public-access registry[0], but it's good to see more public registries coming online - people had gotten too comfortable with Docker Hub being almost entirely free.

0: https://github.blog/2020-09-01-introducing-github-container-...

PSA: If you have a personal AWS account and you want some custom url path for your public images (like public.ecr.aws/sparrc/myimage) then login and create your public registry and custom alias ASAP.

I hope AWS has plans to reach out to maintainers for things on Dockerhub to get them to mirror here.

Or at least be a steward in maintaining containers themselves (Dockerhub has the concept of Verified Publishers IIRC).

Worst case here might be lots of containers showing up here that aren't by the same organization maintaining the equivalent Dockerhub containers, would get really annoying to deal with.

Aaand there goes dockerhub

Guess that's about it for the rate limits.