Amazon ECR vs Harbor comparison

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We performed a comparison between Amazon ECR and Harbor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon ECR

Ranking in Container Registry

1st

Average Rating

9.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Harbor

Ranking in Container Registry

2nd

Average Rating

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2024, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of Amazon ECR is 13.3%, down from 19.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Harbor is 31.1%, up from 24.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

JoaoDias

Senior Software Engineer at Arc One

Oct 16, 2023

Centralizes Docker images in one place but improvement is needed in tag manipulation

Amazon ECR helps to centralize our Docker images in one place, which is very useful to us. It helps to store our images in a private repository and connect with other products in AWS. The most tool's valuable feature is image scanning. Amazon ECR's manipulation capability of tags needs to be…

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Sudipto Das

Senior System Administrator at Nucleus Software Exports Limited

Sep 15, 2020

Check document vulnerabilities with this cloud-native product that needs to improve in ease-of-use

Similar products we have used include Nexus (Sonatype) and JFrog (Artifactory). In the public cloud, we have also been using AWS ECR (Amazon Web Services, Elastic Container Registry) as a data registry. For vulnerability scanning, there is one more open-source tool that we have used called Anchore. We decided to switch to using Harbor because there is nothing like it amongst these tools. For Nexus and JFrog we needed some vulnerability reports that they did not provide and we are getting these reports freely from Harbor. This Harbor tool also has the advantage of being an open-source tool and costs nothing. That is why we switched.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"In the case of Amazon ECR, there are various valuable features we can see. Currently, there are image-scanning capabilities that we use."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is how it organizes the code and the infrastructure."

"The autoscaling functionality is the main beneficial feature of Amazon ECR. It simplifies management, but some configurations can complicate things a bit."

"The solution is very stable."

"The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is its ease of use and the centralized management console."

"The most tool's valuable feature is image scanning."

"What I like most about Amazon ECR is that it's swift."

"One feature of Amazon ECR that I find particularly useful is its web interface, which makes management easy. The ability to manage and support token image updates is crucial for us. Moreover, utilizing load balancers via AWS features allows us to manage all traffic."

"Right now this is the leading product in this category."

Cons

"Improving the documentation for easy understanding will help bring in more clients to use Amazon ECR."

"One area for improvement in Amazon ECR is its complexity. It's pretty complex for newbies, particularly learning about private repositories, including how to access Amazon ECR through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)."

"If there were a way to use containers as tasks directly, that would simplify things. Currently, when we use EC2 instances, scaling horizontally means increasing the instance count by five times, which might not be cost-effective. Maybe using containers directly for tasks could be a better option."

"Amazon ECR's manipulation capability of tags needs to be improved."

"It would be great if they could also provide a reference to fix the errors or vulnerabilities in the images rather than just notifying us about them."

"Amazon ECR needs to improve its downtime."

"Its support for system architecture needs improvement."

"Amazon ECR should improve the integration with Amazon CloudWatch. For example, allowing us to monitor the queues better. Additionally, some of the features could be made more accessible."

"The GUI needs to improve."

"The product should integrate better with other storage options."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The main difference between Amazon ECR and other solutions, like Google Kubernetes Engine, is that I haven't personally used GKE. However, I know that GKE costs around $60 per month, which is quite cost-effective."

"My company currently has Amazon ECR under the pay-as-you-go model. The tool is more affordable than Azure Container Registry, and it's worth the money."

"Amazon ECR does not have a high cost."

"The solution's price is reasonable compared to its competitors"

"The cost of the product is free."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Government

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By reviewers

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Small Business

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Amazon ECR?

One feature of Amazon ECR that I find particularly useful is its web interface, which makes management easy. The ability to manage and support token image updates is crucial for us. Moreover, utili...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon ECR?

Amazon ECR does not have a high cost.

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Amazon ECR needs to improve its downtime.

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 8% of the time

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Compared 6% of the time

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Overview

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

Harbor is an open source container image registry that secures images with role-based access control, scans images for vulnerabilities, and signs images as trusted. A CNCF Incubating project, Harbor delivers compliance, performance, and interoperability to help you consistently and securely manage images across cloud native compute platforms like Kubernetes and Docker.

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