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How does ECR image scanning help identify security vulnerabilities within container images before they are deployed?

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ECR image scanning automatically analyzes the operating system packages and, with enhanced scanning enabled, application dependencies within a container image against known vulnerability databases, flagging any identified vulnerabilities along with their severity level, which can be configured to run automatically every time a new image is pushed, giving teams visibility into security risks before a vulnerable image is ever deployed to production.
aws ecr start-image-scan --repository-name my-app --image-id imageTag=latest
Real-world example A security conscious development team enables automatic scanning on push for their ECR repositories, catching a critical vulnerability in a base image dependency before that image is ever deployed to their production ECS cluster.

Common follow-ups: What is the difference between basic scanning and enhanced scanning in ECR?;How do you integrate ECR scan results into a CI/CD pipeline to block deployment of vulnerable images?

AWS Security Hub & GuardDuty;AWS CodePipeline CodeBuild & CodeDeploy (CI/CD)
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