To start an image vulnerability scan

The following start-image-scan example starts an image scan for and specified by the image digest in the specified repository.

aws ecr start-image-scan \
    --repository-name sample-repo \
    --image-id imageDigest=sha256:74b2c688c700ec95a93e478cdb959737c148df3fbf5ea706abe0318726e885e6

Output:

{
   "registryId": "012345678910",
   "repositoryName": "sample-repo",
   "imageId": {
       "imageDigest": "sha256:74b2c688c700ec95a93e478cdb959737c148df3fbf5ea706abe0318726e885e6"
   },
   "imageScanStatus": {
       "status": "IN_PROGRESS"
   }
}

For more information, see Image Scanning in the Amazon ECR User Guide.