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Amazon ECR vs Red Hat Quay 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
2nd
Average Rating
8.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
21
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Red Hat Quay
Ranking in Container Registry
6th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
5.5
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Container Registry category, the mindshare of Amazon ECR is 18.3%, up from 16.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat Quay is 8.0%, down from 8.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Container Registry
 

Featured Reviews

Eli Chavez - PeerSpot reviewer
Solution delivers consistent reliability and high stability
ECR is reliable, however, I don't consider it the best container registry available. The main reason is that it is not entirely based on the original Docker registry. For instance, I prefer Azure's ACR because, in ACR, there is no need to create repositories; I simply push. Logging into the repository and specifying the path automatically creates everything. This structure resembles an S3 setup with a container registry layout.
SunilkumarSivan - PeerSpot reviewer
Experience with image management has improved application deployments
The best features in Red Hat Quay include the user interface and the RBAC facility, which allows us to control image access for specific teams. We have geo-replication in place, where storage can be replicated across regions, providing redundancy to prevent single points of failure. It is configured to ensure constant availability. Red Hat Quay's automated image building enhances CI/CD pipeline efficiency because all our applications are deployed through CI/CD pipeline, whether Jenkins or Octopus, and can pull images directly through Red Hat Quay using robot accounts and service accounts. This makes it effective from that perspective. Role-based access control is a major feature we have been using because we have hundreds of applications deployed in our container platform, owned by various application owners. Role-based access helps us restrict access to unwanted users within the organization. We maintain separate organizations with different types of access for users, including admin access, view access, and read access for every image. The geo-replication happens at the backend, while the front-end RBAC is managed through a single dashboard. The continuous dynamic sync runs in the background, though monitoring capabilities are limited to the storage team's purview.

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 aspect of ECR is its user-friendliness."
"The most valuable feature is that Amazon ECR is very simple and useful."
"The most tool's valuable feature is image scanning."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is its ease of use and the centralized management console."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon ECR is how it organizes the code and the infrastructure."
"The autoscaling functionality is the main beneficial feature of Amazon ECR. It simplifies management, but some configurations can complicate things a bit."
"The integration with AWS services is very easy, and the deployment and initial setup are pretty straightforward."
"The main feature I value is the ability to deposit and retrieve images."
"Things like downloading an image, pulling an image, tagging, and pushing it back to the needed organization are fairly easy compared to doing things through the command-line interface."
"It's easy to use, and it does what it is meant for."
 

Cons

"There were some initial connectivity issues, especially when accessing ECR from our on-prem setup."
"Its support for system architecture needs improvement."
"There is no room for improvement mentioned; it's good as is."
"There could be improvements to the interface of AWS concerning ECR."
"I suggest making it more aligned with the Docker registry version two API specification."
"Amazon ECR needs to improve its downtime."
"It would be great if they could also provide a reference to fix the errors or vulnerabilities in the images rather than just notifying us about them."
"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."
"Nothing is happening regarding AI. I don’t see the role of AI currently."
"It could be more integrated with other platforms."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The solution's prices are high in India as compared to the US."
"Amazon ECR does not have a high cost."
"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 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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
15%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Insurance Company
6%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Computer Software Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Government
9%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Amazon ECR?
I haven't observed the costs associated with Amazon ECR services in detail.
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...
What needs improvement with Red Hat Quay?
From the AI perspective, it just serves as a container registry at this point. We are also looking for the possibility to retain a VM image from Quay, which is not possible currently. So, nothing i...
What is your primary use case for Red Hat Quay?
We use Red Hat Quay as a single source of truth for all of our container images. We store all the container images that are used in the OpenShift platform.
What advice do you have for others considering Red Hat Quay?
I would definitely recommend it. Overall, I would rate this product an eight out of ten.
 

Also Known As

Amazon Elastic Container Registry
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Sample Customers

Expedia, Intuit, Royal Dutch Shell, Brooks Brothers
The Asiakastieto Group, Akbank, TTTECH
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