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Amazon ECR vs IBM Cloud Container Registry comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Amazon ECR
Ranking in Container Registry
1st
Average Rating
8.6
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
23
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
IBM Cloud Container Registry
Ranking in Container Registry
10th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of Amazon ECR is 16.6%, down from 18.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Cloud Container Registry is 3.0%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Registry Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Amazon ECR16.6%
IBM Cloud Container Registry3.0%
Other80.4%
Container Registry
 

Featured Reviews

PrashantaPaudel - PeerSpot reviewer
Wordpress Trainer at SpeedZone.fi
Has supported container workflows through fast image handling and seamless service integrations
The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is that we can push and pull faster than other similar products. It means saving and retrieving more efficiently. This is not manual dragging and dropping, but rather programmatic taking and saving. I have used Amazon ECR with Lambda, EC2, and EFS. These are integrable services where you can call Amazon ECR from anywhere in AWS. If my product is not always dependent totally on Amazon ECR only, but if the product is dependent on Amazon ECR only, then having a low time to load, low time to save, and a faster containerizing process time would affect the software's response time. This is important.
Manuel Cruz - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Information Technology at Universidade do Porto
Ensures students only have access while on campus but is expensive
It was limited because it was only to support a program. There was some benefits because we didn't have the infrastructure physically, so we would have to buy it. We didn't have to make an investment at the beginning. It has pay-as-you-use pricing. It was good for us. In this Business Intelligence and Analytics program, there are about 15 courses. In 10 courses, they use the cloud infrastructure, different software. They have MySQL database with lots of data. They have to do exercises and and analyze the the data. Basically, they had to do a lot of exercises regarding machine learning. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable feature of the solution is the scanning of images for vulnerabilities."
"ECR provides robust security features, including image scanning and vulnerability assessment, supported by AWS identity and access management for fine-grained access control."
"Amazon ECR has a native integration with all AWS services, making it convenient for use within the AWS ecosystem."
"The most valuable feature is that Amazon ECR is very simple and useful."
"It is easy to use compared to other container registries."
"The technical support services are excellent."
"Amazon ECR provides automated image scanning, which alerts me about vulnerabilities categorized by severity, enabling me to harden images and reduce vulnerabilities before using them in production."
"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."
"We use the the IBM cloud to provide the computing solution for the course."
"The product is efficient and can be used for multiple environments."
 

Cons

"The Amazon ECR interface could benefit from improvements to enhance user experience."
"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 I could use less code and have more of the user interface provide predictions of the coding required in my CLI or Terraform, that would be nice."
"When it comes to pricing for Amazon ECR, that is the only area AWS has to look into."
"Amazon ECR's manipulation capability of tags needs to be improved."
"Deeper integration with other security tools would enhance usability."
"I would appreciate a feature in Amazon ECR that allows direct image downloads from open source into ECR, bypassing the current need to first pull the image to my server."
"If Amazon ECR had CI/CD also integrated into it, then it would probably be better."
"Price should be reduced."
"IBM Cloud Container Registry should improve its API management. One improvement factor could be enhancing the integration capabilities of container registries like Harbor with hyperscaler platforms. While some container registries, like Azure Container Registry and IBM Cloud Container Registry, are tightly integrated with their respective hyperscaler environments, others may lack integration options."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's price is reasonable compared to its competitors"
"The product is expensive."
"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."
"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."
"The solution's prices are high in India as compared to the US."
"Amazon ECR does not have a high cost."
"The product is recommended to enterprises due to its high costs."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Computer Software Company
11%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
No data available
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Midsize Enterprise5
Large Enterprise7
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon ECR?
When it comes to pricing for Amazon ECR, that is the only area AWS has to look into. Services like IoT services or SageMaker are very high, and many times customers complain that while the initial ...
What needs improvement with Amazon ECR?
For potential areas of improvement in Amazon ECR, I need to check if AWS has features similar to Azure Defender for scanning, getting vulnerabilities, and patching recommendations. Regarding additi...
What is your primary use case for Amazon ECR?
The main use case for Amazon ECR is that whatever containerized image we are building will be pushed to Amazon ECR, and then it will get deployed into a Kubernetes cluster. I appreciate that if my ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for IBM Cloud Container Registry?
I rate the pricing at six on a scale, of ten where ten is expensive.
What is your primary use case for IBM Cloud Container Registry?
We have the infrastructure for an executive program on business intelligence and analytics. We use the the IBM cloud to provide the computing solution for the course.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Container Registry
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
American Airlines, UBank, Bitly, Eurobits
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