Probably good for dockerhub TBH....they get less traffic so less costs but will probably remain the defacto standard and go-to spot for finding images for the foreseeable future.
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.
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.
They do have verified publishers, but it's tied to marketplace so not sure how they are going to do "verified" for open-source projects.
One example that I've seen that already exists is "bitnami" is publishing all sorts of generally useful images (like https://gallery.ecr.aws/bitnami/golang) that are verified but not from the original creator like in dockerhub.
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...
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.
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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.
One example that I've seen that already exists is "bitnami" is publishing all sorts of generally useful images (like https://gallery.ecr.aws/bitnami/golang) that are verified but not from the original creator like in dockerhub.
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...