When comparing JFrog Artifactory vs Amazon EC2 Container Registry, the Slant community recommends JFrog Artifactory for most people. In the question“What are the best docker image private registries?” JFrog Artifactory is ranked 7th while Amazon EC2 Container Registry is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose JFrog Artifactory is:
A very simple setup for trial and production deployment using Docker.
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Pros
Pro Can run as a Docker container
A very simple setup for trial and production deployment using Docker.
Pro Run it locally or get it as a service
You can install Artifactory locally in your data center or get it as a service from JFrog on one of several cloud providers (currently AWS, GCP and Azure).
Pro Integration with JFrog Xray
JFrog Xray enables scanning of Docker images for known vulnerabilities, license compliance issues, providing a full component graph and analysis tool.
Pro Universal binary repository manager for Docker and any other package type
One centralized repository for any package type.
Pro Support high availability set up
Pro Amazon ECR is integrated with Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS), simplifying your development to production workflow.
Pro Free tier
Amazon ECR, like other AWS tools has a free tier for beginners of 500MB-month storage for one year.
Cons
Con Free account is closed after 2 weeks of inactivity
Con Very frustrating
Con Docker registry support is not available on their OSS version
Con Buggy Installation and Migrations with version 7
Con The access token expires after 12 hours
You have to build a more complex deployment script in order to compensate for the AWS token expiring after 12 hours.