Re:JFrog S-1
by ttul on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:19PM
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In addition to what others have said, I think Amazon's Elastic Container Registry is a huge threat to JFrog's prospects. Perhaps they need to IPO now to gain access to the deep pools of capital they'll require to face down the threat from Amazon. Or maybe this is one of those IPOs like SendGrid that is fairly quickly followed by an acquisition.
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The people and places i know of see them are complementary. If you’re installing a custom rpm in your docker image, you store the rpm in artifactory and the final image in ecr. The pricing on bandwidth was crazy to use it as a docker repo last I looked, which was a while ago. There’s a ton of value in hosting all the private repo types.
Both ECR and CodeArtifact are competition from AWS. If you're already using AWS it's difficult to justify the switch to Artifactory, considering you also lose integrations with things like instance roles when you switch.
Re:JFrog S-1
by lovehashbrowns on Monday August 24, 2020 @05:29PM
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We have tried to switch over to CodeArtifact but it doesn't support as many repo types as Artifactory. :( We use generic type repos a lot.