Not a big feature, but a small quality-of-life improvement that AWS provides. Automatic ECR repository creation is one of those features we’ve needed for a long time.

Literally a couple of weeks ago, we discussed with the team how we would automate this to simplify life for both us and the development team. Now it’s here, and we won’t have to spend time building “workarounds” around it.

https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/12/amazon-ecr-creating-repositories-on-push/