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Container image scanning - Amazon EKS

Container image scanning

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Image Scanning is an automated vulnerability assessment feature that helps improve the security of your application’s container images by scanning them for a broad range of operating system vulnerabilities.

Currently, the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is only able to scan Linux container image for vulnerabilities. However; there are third-party tools which can be integrated with an existing CI/CD pipeline for Windows container image scanning.

To learn more about how to integrate these solutions with Amazon Elastic Container Repository (ECR), check:

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