Amazon ECR vs IBM Cloud Container Registry comparison

Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM are both solutions in the Container Registry category. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5, while IBM is ranked #8 with an average rating of 8.0. Amazon Web Services (AWS) holds a 18.1% mindshare in CR, compared to IBM’s 0.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Amazon Web Services (AWS) users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of IBM users who would recommend it.

Amazon ECR

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 21, 2025

Amazon ECR and IBM Cloud Container Registry provide container registry services. Amazon ECR holds an advantage in pricing and support, while IBM Cloud Container Registry may be chosen for its comprehensive feature set.

Features: Amazon ECR offers seamless integration with AWS services, strong security policies, and reliability. IBM Cloud Container Registry provides robust security features, image vulnerability scanning, and efficient scalability. IBM is strong in security and scalability, while Amazon is known for integration and reliability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Amazon ECR benefits from integration with AWS infrastructure, backed by AWS's resources. IBM Cloud Container Registry simplifies deployment across cloud and on-premises, offering personalized support. IBM's flexibility offers an advantage in support.

Pricing and ROI: Amazon ECR is cost-effective, operating on a pay-as-you-go model with lower setup costs. IBM Cloud Container Registry has higher initial costs with potential long-term value through features and scalability. Amazon is suitable for cost-conscious organizations.

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Categories and Ranking

Amazon ECR

Ranking in Container Registry

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

IBM Cloud Container Registry

Ranking in Container Registry

8th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of Amazon ECR is 18.1%, up from 16.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of IBM Cloud Container Registry is 0.3%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Rikin Parekh

Backend Engineer at Northeastern University

Helps to store Docker containers and images but deployment can be complex

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. Setting up this product initially does take quite a bit of time, and maintaining it also requires effort. Doing it via command line would be challenging, so I find it easier to manage through the interface.

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Manuel Cruz

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.

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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

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

"The most valuable aspect of ECR is its user-friendliness."

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

"ECR provides robust security features, including image scanning and vulnerability assessment, supported by AWS identity and access management for fine-grained access control."

"The solution is very stable."

"The main feature I value is the ability to deposit and retrieve images."

"The ECR solution is good. It is integrated with AWS, and it's free. Everything is free, which makes it nice to use."

"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."

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"The product is efficient and can be used for multiple environments."

"We use the the IBM cloud to provide the computing solution for the course."

Cons

"The UI for managing ECR and other services could be improved. It could be user-friendly compared to other cloud services."

"There could be improvements to the interface of AWS concerning ECR."

"There were a few issues related to the roles, policies, and retrieval of data when trying to fetch images for deployment on Amazon ECS. This can involve permissions and configuration complexities."

"Amazon ECR needs to improve its downtime."

"There is no room for improvement mentioned; it's good as is."

"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)."

"There were some initial connectivity issues, especially when accessing ECR from our on-prem setup."

"The Amazon ECR interface could benefit from improvements to enhance user experience."

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"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

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

"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."

"Amazon ECR does not have a high cost."

"The solution's prices are high in India as compared to the US."

"The product is expensive."

"The product is recommended to enterprises due to its high costs."

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Computer Software Company

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Manufacturing Company

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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?

I haven't observed the costs associated with Amazon ECR services in detail.

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What needs improvement with Amazon ECR?

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. This would streamline the p...

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What do you like most about IBM Cloud Container Registry?

The product is efficient and can be used for multiple environments.

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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.

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What needs improvement with IBM Cloud Container Registry?

The price should be reduced.

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Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Container Registry

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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.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

IBM Cloud Container Registry provides a multi-tenant, highly available, private image registry that is hosted and managed by IBM. You can use the registry by adding a namespace that is private to your account and then push images to your namespace. ... A tag is an identifier of an image within a repository.

IBM

Sample Customers

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