[ECR] [request]: ECR Image scanning does not support multi-arch images
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**Tell us about your request**
What do you want us to build?
What are the possible ways to scan multi-arch images? Will ECR be supporting the functionality of scanning of multi-arch image in the future
**Which service(s) is this request for?**
This could be ECR
**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
What outcome are you trying to achieve, ultimately, and why is it hard/impossible to do right now? What is the impact of not having this problem solved? The more details you can provide, the better we'll be able to understand and solve the problem.
The multi arch build images doesn’t get scanned. we would like to know the alternatives for this and will ecr provide this feature in the near feature. I could see they are no documents specifying that ECR doesn’t support multi arch bild image scanning.
"https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/docker-push-multi-architecture-image.html"
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https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/docker-push-multi-architecture-image.html
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Research direction
No repository files or tests are named. Start with the linked Amazon ECR multi-architecture image documentation and compare its scanning behavior with the requested outcome; done would require a maintainer-confirmed ECR capability or documented alternative.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, docker
- Domain
- cloud, devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100