AWS to create its own public container registry in response to Docker pull rate limit
Plus: Faster on-demand supercomputing. P4d VMs with Nvidia A100 and GPUDirect RDMA AWS will deliver a new public container registry “within weeks” in response to Docker’s introduction of pull rate limits for Docker Hub.…
Date: 2020-11-03
URL: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/11/03/aws_container_reg/
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