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Amazon ECR vs Docker Hub: What are the differences?

What is Amazon ECR? A fully-managed Docker container registry service. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) makes it easy for developers to store, manage, and deploy Docker container images. It is integrated with Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), simplifying your development to production workflow.

What is Docker Hub? Build and Ship any Application Anywhere. It is the world's easiest way to create, manage, and deliver your teams' container applications. It is the perfect home for your teams' applications.

Amazon ECR can be classified as a tool in the "Docker Registry" category, while Docker Hub is grouped under "Container Tools".

According to the StackShare community, Docker Hub has a broader approval, being mentioned in 23 company stacks & 22 developers stacks; compared to Amazon ECR, which is listed in 10 company stacks and 9 developer stacks.

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Pros of Amazon ECR
Pros of Docker Hub
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    Highly secure as policies can be configured to manage p
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    Familiar to AWS users and easy to use
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    No upfront fees or commitments. You pay only for the am
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    Tight integration with Amazon ECS and the Docker CLI, a
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    Uses a very familiar collaboration model as GitHub, the
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    Provides public and private repositories
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    Quickly creates organizations, add users or create grou
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    Allows users to set permissions to restrict access or s
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    Fairly inexpensive with usage based pricing
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    Security scanning available

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Cons of Amazon ECR
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    Difficult to use with docker client as it requires crea
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    Lack of insight into registry usage
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    Potentially expensive if the containers being deployed
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    Lacks fine grain access control
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    Does not provide any insight into the registry usage
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    Lacks LDAP, SAML and OAuth support

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What is Amazon ECR?

It is a fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, manage, share, and deploy your container images and artifacts anywhere. It eliminates the need to operate your own container repositories or worry about scaling the underlying infrastructure.

What is Docker Hub?

It is the world's easiest way to create, manage, and deliver your teams' container applications. It is the perfect home for your teams' applications.

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What are some alternatives to Amazon ECR and Docker Hub?
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Harbor
Harbor is an open source cloud native registry that stores, signs, and scans container images for vulnerabilities. Harbor solves common challenges by delivering trust, compliance, performance, and interoperability. It fills a gap for organ
Quay.io
Simply upload your Dockerfile (and any additional files it needs) and we'll build your Dockerfile into an image and push it to your repository.
Google Container Registry
It is a single place for your team to manage Docker images, perform vulnerability analysis, and decide who can access what with fine-grained access control.
Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public
It is a fully managed registry that makes it easy for a developer to publicly share container software worldwide for anyone to download. Anyone (with or without an AWS account) can use it to pull container software for use. Amazon ECR Public Gallery is a website that allows anyone to browse and search for public container images, view developer-provided details, and see pull commands. Developers no longer need to use different private and public registries when building and sharing their public container artifacts.
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