Amazon's registry service for container images, which Defender for Containers can scan once the AWS connector is in place.
Also called ECR.
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Terms in this definition
- Container
Something that groups data. Blob Storage containers sit inside a storage account and hold blobs much as folders hold files; Cosmos DB containers hold items and set the scope for partitioning and throughput.
- Microsoft Defender for Containers
Secures container images and Kubernetes clusters wherever they run, whether AKS with ACR, EKS with ECR or GKE with Artifact Registry, and includes vulnerability scanning of registry images. Offered as a Defender for Cloud plan.
- AWS
Short for Amazon Web Services, Amazon's public cloud. Linking AWS accounts to Microsoft Defender for Cloud brings them under its recommendations and protections.