AWS ECR

2 documented AWS ECR cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it.

2 inefficiencies

AWS ECRCER-0308
ECR Archive Storage Class Used Below 150 TB Threshold
In November 2025, AWS introduced an Archive storage class for private ECR repositories, marketed as a way to reduce storage costs for large volumes of rarely used container images. However, Archive storage pricing is identical to Standard...
Storage
AWS ECRCER-0386
Missing ECR Lifecycle Policy for Old and Untagged Images
CI/CD pipelines commonly push a new container image to Amazon ECR on every build, and re-tagging a tag such as latest leaves the previous image behind untagged. ECR keeps every image in a private repository until it is deleted, so without...
Storage