LOW

Ensure ECR repositories have lifecycle policies

Lifecycle policies should be configured to automatically clean up old images.

Security Impact

Without lifecycle policies, storage costs grow unbounded.

How to Remediate

Create lifecycle policies to expire untagged images and old image versions.

Affected Resources

AWS::ECR::Repository

Compliance Frameworks

SOC 2

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Check Details

Check ID
aws-ecr-4
Service
Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
Category
Cost Management
Severity
LOW

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