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Past 50 GB it is not blocked — storage is billed to the repository owner: pricing table 'All storage / month ... per GB' resolves via AWS's price API to $0.1000000000/GB-month.","unit":"GB","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"not stated","source_url":"https://aws.amazon.com/ecr/pricing/","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Half-free, and the free half is generous: 'You can anonymously (without using an AWS account) transfer 500 GB of data to the Internet from a public repository each month for free. If you sign up for an AWS account, or authenticate to Amazon ECR with an existing AWS account, you can transfer 5 TB of data to the Internet from a public repository each month for free.' Past that: 'Greater than 5 TB / month to non AWS Regions | $0.09 per GB'. Anonymous overage is not billed, it is refused: 'Up to 500 GB/month can be transferred out to non-AWS destinations to clients that have not authenticated (that is, anonymously). After that limit is reached, no further anonymous data transfer is allowed.' Zero egress cost to AWS compute in any region.","metered":true,"free_allowance":"5 TB per month"},"interface":["oci","cli"],"interface_detail":"oci","tooling":"docker/skopeo/oras/crane; ORAS pushes arbitrary blobs as OCI artifacts. AWS CLI for auth (aws ecr-public get-login-password).","chaining":"50 GB x N AWS accounts. Egress is per-downloader-IP for anonymous pulls and 5 TB/month for any authenticated AWS account, so a single account gives 5 TB/mo of public egress, and each additional free AWS account gives another 5 TB/mo as the authenticated client. 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