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[ECR] [request]: Allow exclusion of prefixes for lifecycle policy rules

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**Tell us about your request**
Allow exclusion of tag prefixes for lifecycle policy rules

**Which service(s) is this request for?**
ECR

**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
We promote our images from preproduction to production. We may create a number of preproduction images, but ultimately only release a few of those to production. We would like to use a lifecycle policy to clean up the preproduction images but there is no way to exclude those with production tags as well.

For example, an image has the following tags:

`8c96f0598f74e5f9c61fe8dcefe7c11732ee3b30, release-4-5-2-8c96f059-463320462, v4.5.2`

A lifecycle rule targeting the `release` prefix will clean up this image.

What we need is a rule for images that have a `v` prefix, and a rule for images that have a `release, not v` prefix.

**Are you currently working around this issue?**
We are not currently running a lifecycle policy on these images

**Additional context**
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Research direction

This is an AWS ECR lifecycle-policy feature request, and the payload names no repository files, tests, or implementation entry points. Start by reviewing the ECR lifecycle-policy behavior described in the request and the service's existing policy constraints. Done means ECR can exclude production-tagged images while applying cleanup to matching preproduction tags.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws
Domain
cloud
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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