AWS ECR
AWS ECR is a container registry from AWS, categorized among artifact and container registries · aws.amazon.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
GitHub Packages is first at 50%.
Sonatype Nexus Repository is first at 28%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
JFrog Artifactory is first at 51%.
Why models recommend it
“Cloud provider registries (ECR, ACR, GAR) | Recommended – built-in security features”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · first choice
“AWS ECR, GCR, Azure ACR - Cloud provider registries with built-in security”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · first choice
“Primary: Use your cloud provider's managed registry (ECR, ACR, GCR, Artifactory)”Kimi K2 · Negative question · first choice
“Common private options referenced are AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry and Harbor”Muse Glimmer 30B · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“If considering AWS ECR or Google Artifact Registry, model your pull patterns carefully — egress and storage costs scale unpredictably”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · warning
“Not to be *avoided*, but cautious about relying on them as your only registry.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“best open-source alternative to expensive cloud registries like AWS ECR”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as AWS ECR, over the 38 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | 2 | View → | |
| 29 | 5 | View → | |
| 28 | 0 | View → | |
| 27 | 3 | View → | |
| 25 | 9 | View → | |
| 24 | 0 | View → | |
| 12 | 3 | View → | |
| 12 | 2 | View → | |
| 9 | 2 | View → | |
| 7 | 1 | View → |
What the models named instead of AWS ECR →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on AWS ECR's own site, not checked by Gane.
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How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
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Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 28 of the 38 answers that named AWS ECR and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
100 of the 100 domain citations in answers naming AWS ECR came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |