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Amazon ECR introduces archive storage class for rarely accessed container images

Published
November 19, 2025
https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/11/amazon-ecr-archive-storage-class-container-images/

Amazon ECR Archive Storage Class

Amazon ECR now offers a new archive storage class to reduce storage costs for large volumes of rarely accessed container images. This new class helps you meet compliance and retention requirements while optimizing storage costs.

ECR lifecycle policies now support archiving images based on last pull time, allowing automatic archiving based on usage patterns.

What to do

  • Configure lifecycle rules to automatically archive images based on criteria such as image age, count, or last pull time.
  • Use the ECR Console or API to archive images individually.
  • Archived images do not count against your image per repository limit.
  • Restore archived images via ECR Console, CLI, or API within 20 minutes.

The new ECR archive storage class is available in all AWS Commercial and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.

Source: AWS release notes




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